Do you know of Ivy ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1897 and closed in 1901.

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 Ivy ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Ivy.

Within Ohio, the name Ivy is unique.

Beyond Ohio, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Dallas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Ivy [Dallas County].
- California
  - Los Angeles 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 California community of Ivy [Los Angeles County].
- Illinois
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Ivy [Monroe County].
- Iowa
  - Polk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Ivy [Polk County].
- Kansas
  - Lyon 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 Kansas community of Ivy [Lyon County].
- Missouri
  - Cedar County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Ivy [Cedar County].
- North Carolina
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ivy [Madison County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Ivy.
- Oregon
  - Clatsop 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 Oregon community of Ivy [Clatsop County].
- Tennessee
  - Anderson 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 Tennessee community of Ivy [Anderson County].
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ivy [Monroe County].
- Texas
  - Angelina 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 Texas community of Ivy [Angelina County].
  - Caldwell County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ivy [Caldwell County].
- Virginia
  - Albemarle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ivy [Albemarle County].
- West Virginia
  - Upshur County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Ivy [Upshur County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ivy ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

More Orphans in Jackson 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 Jackson County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Ivy 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/