Do you know of Athelstan ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Athelstan. 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 Athelstan.
Our sources for Athelstan (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 Athelstan other than they indicate that Athelstan would be found somewhere in Worth County, Missouri.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1887 and closed in 1893.
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 Athelstan ...
We found three communities that share the name Athelstan.
Within Missouri, the name Athelstan is unique.
Beyond Missouri, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these three communities, .
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Athelstan ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Athelstan:
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 Athelstan - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned
Map from 1904 (unknown title/publisher)
More Orphans in Worth 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 Worth County.
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Footnotes ...
| <1> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |