Do you know of Calvert ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Calvert. 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 Calvert.
Our sources for Calvert (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 Calvert other than they indicate that Calvert would be found somewhere in Kemper County, Mississippi.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1886 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 Calvert ...
We found sixteen communities that share the name Calvert.
Within Mississippi, the name Calvert is unique.
Beyond Mississippi, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Mobile County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Calvert [Mobile County].
- Kansas
- Norton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Calvert [Norton County].
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Baltimore City
- 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 Maryland community of Calvert [Baltimore City].
- Cecil County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Calvert [Cecil County].
- Montana
- Cascade County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Calvert [Cascade County].
- Nebraska
- Dundy County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Calvert [Dundy County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Calvert.
- North Carolina
- Transylvania County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Calvert [Transylvania County].
- Oregon
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Calvert [Douglas County].
- Pennsylvania
- Lycoming County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Calvert [Lycoming County].
- South Carolina
- Abbeville 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 South Carolina community of Calvert [Abbeville County].
- Spartanburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Calvert [Spartanburg County].
- Texas
- Robertson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Calvert [Robertson County].
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- La Crosse County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Calvert [La Crosse County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Calvert ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Calvert:
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 Calvert - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Mississippi (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Kemper 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 Kemper County.
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 Calvert 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/ |