Do you know of Selkirk ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Selkirk. 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 Selkirk.
Our sources for Selkirk (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 Selkirk other than they indicate that Selkirk would be found somewhere in Laclede County, Missouri.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1886 and closed in 1896.
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 Selkirk ...
We found eleven communities that share the name Selkirk.
There is one other community in Missouri which is also named Selkirk.
Beyond Missouri, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, eight are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Missouri ...
- New Madrid County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Selkirk [New Madrid County].
- New Madrid County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Kansas
- Wichita County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Selkirk [Wichita County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Selkirk.
- Michigan
- Ogemaw County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Selkirk [Ogemaw County].
- New York
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Selkirk.
- Pennsylvania
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Selkirk [Warren County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Selkirk.
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Roane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Selkirk [Roane County].
- Kansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Selkirk ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Selkirk:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Selkirk - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Laclede 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 Laclede County.
| Atoka | Logan |
| Bath | May |
| Brushcreek | |
| Partlow | |
| Delto | Pine Creek |
| Dry Glaize | |
| Sandrock | |
| Hazlegreen | Spring Hollow |
| Lark | Warrenville |
| Line City | Winchester Gap |
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 Selkirk 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/ |