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Do you know of Atlas ???

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

Our sources for Atlas (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 Atlas other than they indicate that Atlas would be found somewhere in Belmont County, Ohio.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1851 and closed  in 1929.

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 Atlas ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Atlas.

There is one other community in Ohio which is also named Atlas.

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

  • Communities Located In Ohio ...
    • Portage 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 Ohio community of Atlas [Portage County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Lauderdale County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Atlas [Lauderdale County].
    • California
      • Napa County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Atlas [Napa County].
    • Idaho
      • Kootenai County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Atlas [Kootenai County].
    • Illinois
      • Pike County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Atlas [Pike County].
    • Kansas
      • Crawford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Atlas [Crawford County].
    • Kentucky
      • Carter 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 Kentucky community of Atlas [Carter County].
    • Michigan
      • Genesee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Atlas [Genesee County].
    • Missouri
      • Jasper County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Atlas [Jasper County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Northumberland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Atlas [Northumberland County].
    • Texas
      • Lamar County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Atlas [Lamar County].
    • Virginia
      • Pittsylvania 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 Atlas [Pittsylvania County].
    • West Virginia
      • Upshur County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Atlas [Upshur County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Polk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Atlas [Polk County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Atlas ...

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

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

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

George#&160;F. Cram Map (1901)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Atlas.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 39/02792   (Place Name: Atlas (Boston))

County: Belmont     (FIPS State/County: 39/013)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Atlas) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Belmont 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 Belmont County.

AllendoniaKirkwood Heights
AmblerKirkwood
ArmstrongKlee
  
Bellview HeightsLashley
BethelLaughlins Mills
BruceLewis Mills
BurlingtonLoydsville
Burton's 
 Mapleton
Captina Station 
CompherNorth Neffs
Cope 
CrowOhio Junction
  
Deep RunPasco
DemosPatton's Run
DillePilcher
DonPipe Creek
DrillPlank Road
 Powhatan
FranklinPugh
  
Glenns RunRainey's
 Ramage
Hendershot 
HoferShields
 Steel
IrwinStewart
  
Junction Captina SpurWest Bellaire
 West Powhatan
KiddWillow Grove

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 Atlas 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/









 

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