Do you know of Elwood ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Elwood. 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 Elwood.
We found mention of Elwood as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Steele County, Minnesota.
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 1856 and closed in 1871.
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 Elwood ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Elwood.
Within Minnesota, the name Elwood is unique.
Beyond Minnesota, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
- Saint Johns County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Elwood [Saint Johns County].
- Illinois
- Will County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Elwood [Will County].
- Indiana
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Elwood [Madison County].
- Iowa
- Clinton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Elwood [Clinton County].
- Kansas
- Doniphan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Elwood [Doniphan County].
- Maryland
- Mississippi
- Clarke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Elwood [Clarke County].
- Missouri
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Elwood [Greene County].
- Nebraska
- Gosper County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Elwood [Gosper County].
- New Jersey
- Atlantic County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Elwood [Atlantic County].
- New Mexico
- Otero County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Elwood [Otero County].
- New York
- Suffolk County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Elwood [Suffolk County].
- Oregon
- Clackamas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Elwood [Clackamas County].
- Texas
- Utah
- Box Elder County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Elwood [Box Elder County].
- Virginia
- Suffolk City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Elwood [Suffolk City].
- Washington
- Walla Walla County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Elwood [Walla Walla County].
- Wyoming
- Carbon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Elwood [Carbon County].
- Florida
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Elwood ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Elwood:
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
More Orphans in Steele 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 Steele County.
| Aurora | Dodge City |
| Berlin | East Meriden |
| Cooleysville | Oak Glen |
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 Elwood 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/ |