Do you know of Mountville ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Mountville. 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 Mountville.

Our sources for Mountville (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 Mountville other than they indicate that Mountville would be found somewhere in Sibley County, Minnesota.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1872 and closed  in 1902.

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 Mountville ...

We found eight communities that share the name Mountville.

Within Minnesota, the name Mountville is unique.

Beyond Minnesota, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, six are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Georgia
    • Troup County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Mountville [Troup County].
  • Maryland
    • Frederick County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Mountville [Frederick County].
  • New Brunswick
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Mountville.
  • Nova Scotia
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Mountville.
  • Ohio
    • Morgan County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Mountville [Morgan County].
  • Pennsylvania
    • Lancaster County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Mountville [Lancaster County].
  • South Carolina
    • Laurens County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Mountville [Laurens County].
  • Virginia
    • Loudoun County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Mountville [Loudoun County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mountville ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Mountville:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Mountville - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Sibley County ...

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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 Sibley County.