Do you know of Kelly ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Kelly. 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 Kelly.
Our sources for Kelly (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 Kelly other than they indicate that Kelly would be found somewhere in DeSoto County, Mississippi.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1886 and closed in 1910.
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 Kelly ...
We found 26 communities that share the name Kelly.
There is one other community in Mississippi which is also named Kelly.
Beyond Mississippi, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 25 communities, 24 are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Mississippi ...
- Covington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Kelly [Covington County].
- Covington County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Dale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Kelly [Dale County].
- California
- Shasta County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Kelly [Shasta County].
- Georgia
- Jasper County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Kelly [Jasper County].
- Kansas
- Nemaha County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Kelly [Nemaha County].
- Kentucky
- Christian County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Kelly [Christian County].
- Louisiana
- Caldwell Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Kelly [Caldwell Parish].
- Maryland
- Wicomico County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Kelly [Wicomico County].
- Missouri
- New Mexico
- Socorro County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Kelly [Socorro County].
- North Carolina
- Bladen County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Kelly [Bladen County].
- Moore 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 North Carolina community of Kelly [Moore County].
- North Dakota
- Grand Forks County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Kelly [Grand Forks County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Kelly.
- Pennsylvania
- Quebec
- South Carolina
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Kelly [Union County].
- Texas
- Collin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Kelly [Collin County].
- Virginia
- Campbell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Kelly [Campbell County].
- Tazewell 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 Virginia community of Kelly [Tazewell County].
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Kelly [Logan County].
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Kelly ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Kelly:
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 Kelly - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
More Orphans in DeSoto 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 DeSoto 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 Kelly 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/ |