Do you know of Belle ???

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

Our sources for Belle (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 Belle other than they indicate that Belle would be found somewhere in Clay County, Mississippi.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1882 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 Belle ...

We found two communities that share the name Belle.

Within Mississippi, the name Belle is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Missouri
    • Maries County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Belle [Maries County].
  • West Virginia
    • Kanawha County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Belle [Kanawha County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Belle ...

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

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 Belle - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Rand McNally Map of Mississippi (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Clay 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 Clay County.