Do you know of Ernest ???

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

Our sources for Ernest (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 Ernest other than they indicate that Ernest would be found somewhere in Pembina County, North Dakota.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1880 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 Ernest ...

We found five communities that share the name Ernest.

Within North Dakota, the name Ernest is unique.

Beyond North Dakota, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, four are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Georgia
    • Clinch County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ernest [Clinch County].
  • Missouri
    • Dade County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Ernest [Dade County].
  • Ohio
    • Preble County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ernest [Preble County].
  • Pennsylvania
    • Indiana County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Ernest [Indiana County].
  • Saskatchewan
    • Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Ernest.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ernest ...

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

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

Rand McNally Map of North Dakota (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Pembina 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 Pembina County.