Do you know of Ezzell ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ezzell. 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 Ezzell.
Our sources for Ezzell (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 Ezzell other than they indicate that Ezzell would be found somewhere in Stoddard County, Missouri.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1901 and closed in 1905.
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 Ezzell ...
We found two communities that share the name Ezzell.
Within Missouri, the name Ezzell is unique.
Beyond Missouri, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Texas
- Lavaca County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ezzell [Lavaca County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ezzell ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Ezzell:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Map from 1904 (unknown title/publisher)
More Orphans in Stoddard 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 Stoddard County.
| Alhambra | |
| Altha | Mesler |
| Bridges | Piketon |
| Pyle | |
| Day | |
| Dexter Junction | Reece |
| Rum Creek | |
| Fisk | |
| Sherry | |
| Indian Ford | Sugar Creek |
| Summer Hill | |
| Lakeville | |
| Littlefield | Vinson |
| Lozeta |
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Ezzell 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/ |