Do you know of Rialto ???

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

Our sources for Rialto (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 Rialto other than they indicate that Rialto would be found somewhere in Chatham County, North Carolina.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1858 and closed  in 1904.

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 Rialto ...

We found four communities that share the name Rialto.

Within North Carolina, the name Rialto is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • California
    • San Bernardino County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Rialto [San Bernardino County].
  • Missouri
    • Platte County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Rialto [Platte County].
  • Ohio
    • Butler County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Rialto [Butler County].
  • Tennessee
    • Tipton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Rialto [Tipton County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rialto ...

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Chatham 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 Chatham County.