Do you know of Olga ???

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

Our sources for Olga (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 Olga other than they indicate that Olga would be found somewhere in Christian County, Missouri.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1901 and closed in 1906.

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 Olga ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Olga.

There is one other community in Missouri which is also named Olga.

Beyond Missouri, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Located In Missouri ...
- Webster County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Olga [Webster County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
  - Cochise County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Olga [Cochise County].
- California
  - Los Angeles County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Olga [Los Angeles County].
- Florida
  - Lee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Olga [Lee County].
- Illinois
  - Hamilton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Olga [Hamilton County].
- Kentucky
  - Russell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Olga [Russell County].
- Louisiana
  - Plaquemines Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Olga [Plaquemines Parish].
- Michigan
  - Lake 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 Michigan community of Olga [Lake County].
  - Wexford 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 Michigan community of Olga [Wexford County].
- Minnesota
  - Polk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Olga [Polk County].
- North Dakota
  - Cavalier County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Olga [Cavalier County].
- Ohio
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Olga [Washington County].
- Saskatchewan
  - Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Olga.
- South Carolina
  - Pickens County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Olga [Pickens County].
- Texas
  - Nolan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Olga [Nolan County].
- Washington
  - San Juan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Olga [San Juan County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Olga ...

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

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 Christian 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 Christian County.

Aisle
	Lindenlure Lake
Cassidy Station
	Reno
Gertrude
Glesa	Sto
Guinn
	Wattsville
Kenton

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 Olga 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/