Do you know of Dale ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Dale. 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 Dale.
Our sources for Dale (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Dale other than they indicate that Dale would be found somewhere in Cottonwood County, Minnesota.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1878 and closed in 1895.
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 Dale ...
We found 44 communities that share the name Dale.
There is one other community in Minnesota which is also named Dale.
Beyond Minnesota, we know of another 35 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 35 communities, 35 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
In addition to the above occurrences of Dale, we know of eight communities located outside of the United States and Canada.
- Communities Located In Minnesota ...
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Dale [Clay County].
- Clay County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Blount County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Dale [Blount County].
- Arkansas
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Dale [Johnson County].
- California
- San Bernardino County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Dale [San Bernardino County].
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Dale [Hamilton County].
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Guthrie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Dale [Guthrie County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Campbell 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 Kentucky community of Dale [Campbell County].
- Magoffin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Dale [Magoffin County].
- Michigan
- Gladwin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Dale [Gladwin County].
- Mississippi
- George County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Dale [George County].
- Marion 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 Mississippi community of Dale [Marion County].
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Custer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Dale [Custer County].
- New Mexico
- Harding County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Dale [Harding County].
- New York
- Wyoming County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Dale [Wyoming County].
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Dale [Morgan County].
- Oklahoma
- Pottawatomie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Dale [Pottawatomie County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Dale.
- Oregon
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Dale [Grant County].
- Pennsylvania
- Berks County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Dale [Berks County].
- Cambria County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Dale [Cambria County].
- Clearfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Dale [Clearfield County].
- South Carolina
- Beaufort County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Dale [Beaufort County].
- Texas
- Caldwell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Dale [Caldwell County].
- West Virginia
- Tyler County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Dale [Tyler County].
- Wisconsin
- Outagamie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Dale [Outagamie County].
- Alabama
- Communities Beyond North America ...
- Ethiopia
- We haven't found the location of this Dale
- Wales
- We haven't found the location of this Dale
- Netherlands
- We haven't found the location of this Dale
- Norway
- - Troms
- We haven't found the location of this Dale
- - More og Romsdal
- We haven't found the location of this Dale
- - Oppland
- We haven't found the location of this Dale
- - Sogn og Fjordane
- We haven't found the location of this Dale
- Chad
- We haven't found the location of this Dale
- Ethiopia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dale ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Dale:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Dale - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Cottonwood 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 Cottonwood County.
| Bainbridge | |
| Big Bend | Red Rock |
| Kemi | Selma |
| Stroden | |
| Odell |
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Dale 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/ |