Do you know of Olive ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Olive. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Olive.
We found mention of Olive as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Clinton County, Michigan.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1848 and closed in 1875.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Olive ...
We found 28 communities that share the name Olive.
There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Olive.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 27 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Pima County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Olive [Pima County].
- California
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Olive [Orange County].
- Florida
- Escambia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Olive [Escambia County].
- Indiana
- Saint Joseph County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Olive [Saint Joseph County].
- Kentucky
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Olive [Marshall County].
- Maryland
- Frederick County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Olive [Frederick County].
- Missouri
- Dallas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Olive [Dallas County].
- Saint Louis City
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Olive [Saint Louis City].
- Montana
- Missoula County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Olive [Missoula County].
- Powder River County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Olive [Powder River County].
- Nebraska
- Nance County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Olive [Nance County].
- New Mexico
- Chaves County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Olive [Chaves County].
- New York
- Ohio
- Lawrence County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Olive [Lawrence County].
- Noble County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Olive [Noble County].
- Oklahoma
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Olive.
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Hardin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Olive [Hardin County].
- Virginia
- Caroline County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Olive [Caroline County].
- Culpeper County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Olive [Culpeper County].
- Portsmouth City
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Olive [Portsmouth City].
- Spotsylvania County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Olive [Spotsylvania County].
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Arizona
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Olive ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Olive:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
More Orphans in Clinton County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Clinton County.
| Bengal | |
| Lyons Mill | |
| Chandler | Lyons |
| Chandler's | |
| Merlebeach | |
| Dallas | |
| Daniels | Oral |
| Delta Station | |
| Delta | Park Lake |
| Geary | Rew |
| River Bend | |
| Ingersoll | |
| Isabella | Union Home |
| Jessie | Victor |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Olive could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |