Do you know of Colbert ???

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

We found mention of Colbert as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Lowndes County, Mississippi.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1838 and closed  in 1848.

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 Colbert ...

We found six communities that share the name Colbert.

There is one other community in Mississippi which is also named Colbert.

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

• Communities Located In Mississippi ...
  • Marshall County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Colbert [Marshall County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Alabama
    • Russell County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Colbert [Russell County].
  • Georgia
    • Madison County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Colbert [Madison County].
  • Kansas
    • Lincoln County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Colbert [Lincoln County].
  • Oklahoma
    • Bryan County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Colbert [Bryan County].
  • Washington
    • Spokane County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Colbert [Spokane County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Colbert ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in  Lowndes County ...

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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 Lowndes County.