Do you know of Erie ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Erie. 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 Erie.
Our sources for Erie (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 Erie other than they indicate that Erie would be found somewhere in Becker County, Minnesota.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1884 and closed in 1892.
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 Erie ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Erie.
There is one other community in Minnesota which is also named Erie.
Beyond Minnesota, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 23 communities, 22 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Minnesota ...
- Pennington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Erie [Pennington County].
- Pennington County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Hale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Erie [Hale County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Erie.
- California
- Colorado
- Weld County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Erie [Weld County].
- Florida
- Manatee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Erie [Manatee County].
- Illinois
- Whiteside County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Erie [Whiteside County].
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Michigan
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Erie [Monroe County].
- Missouri
- Nevada
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Erie [Clark County].
- North Dakota
- Cass County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Erie [Cass County].
- Ohio
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Erie [Jackson County].
- Oklahoma
- Kay 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 Oklahoma community of Erie [Kay County].
- Kingfisher 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 Oklahoma community of Erie [Kingfisher County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Erie.
- Pennsylvania
- Erie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Erie [Erie County].
- South Carolina
- Laurens County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Erie [Laurens County].
- Tennessee
- Loudon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Erie [Loudon County].
- West Virginia
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Erie [Harrison County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Erie ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Erie:
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 Erie - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Becker 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 Becker County.
| Clifford | Linnell |
| Detroit City | McHugh |
| Eunice | Runeberg |
| Jarvis | Shell Lake |
| Johnson | |
| Tegneer | |
| Lake Center | Toad Lake |
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Erie 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/ |