Do you know of Dalton ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Dalton. 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 Dalton.
We found mention of Dalton as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Bladen County, North Carolina.
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 1870 and closed in 1874.
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 Dalton ...
We found 35 communities that share the name Dalton.
There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Dalton.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 27 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
In addition to the above occurrences of Dalton, we know of seven communities located outside of the United States and Canada.
- Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Stokes County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Dalton [Stokes County].
- Stokes County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Randolph County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Dalton [Randolph County].
- California
- Modoc County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Dalton [Modoc County].
- Georgia
- Indiana
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Dalton [Wayne County].
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Hopkins County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Dalton [Hopkins County].
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Berkshire County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Dalton [Berkshire County].
- Michigan
- Muskegon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Dalton [Muskegon County].
- Minnesota
- Otter Tail County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Dalton [Otter Tail County].
- Missouri
- Chariton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Dalton [Chariton County].
- Nebraska
- Cheyenne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Dalton [Cheyenne County].
- New Hampshire
- Coos County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Dalton [Coos County].
- New York
- Livingston County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Dalton [Livingston County].
- Ohio
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Dalton [Wayne County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Dalton.
- Pennsylvania
- Lackawanna County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Dalton [Lackawanna County].
- South Carolina
- Oconee County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Dalton [Oconee County].
- Pickens 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 Dalton [Pickens County].
- Texas
- Utah
- Wisconsin
- Green Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Dalton [Green Lake County].
- Arkansas
- Communities Beyond North America ...
- Australia
- We haven't found the location of this Dalton
- Scotland
- We haven't found the location of this Dalton
- England
- - Northumberland
- We haven't found the location of this Dalton
- - Hambleton
- We haven't found the location of this Dalton
- - Richmondshire
- We haven't found the location of this Dalton
- Israel
- We haven't found the location of this Dalton
- South Africa
- We haven't found the location of this Dalton
- Australia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dalton ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Dalton:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Bladen 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 Bladen 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 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 Dalton 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/ |