Do you know of Ovid ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ovid. 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 Ovid.<1>

We found mention of Ovid as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Bates County, Missouri.

Communities Also Named Ovid ...

We found nine communities that share the name Ovid.

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

Beyond Missouri, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
  - Sedgwick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Ovid [Sedgwick County].
- Idaho
  - Bear Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Ovid [Bear Lake County].
- Indiana
  - Madison County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Ovid [Madison County].
- Michigan
  - Clinton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Ovid [Clinton County].
- New York
  - Seneca County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Ovid [Seneca County].
- Ohio
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ovid [Franklin County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Erie County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Ovid [Erie County].
- Texas
  - Jack County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ovid [Jack County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ovid ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Bates 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 Bates County.

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Ovid 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.