Do you know of Cisco ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cisco. 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 Cisco.
Our sources for Cisco (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 Cisco other than they indicate that Cisco would be found somewhere in McCurtain County, Oklahoma.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1913 and closed in 1916.
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 Cisco ...
We found fourteen communities that share the name Cisco.
Within Oklahoma, the name Cisco is unique.
Beyond Oklahoma, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Cisco [Carroll County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Cisco.
- California
- Placer County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Cisco [Placer County].
- Georgia
- Murray County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Cisco [Murray County].
- Illinois
- Piatt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Cisco [Piatt County].
- Kentucky
- Magoffin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Cisco [Magoffin County].
- Massachusetts
- Nantucket County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Cisco [Nantucket County].
- Michigan
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Garden County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Cisco [Garden County].
- North Carolina
- Chowan County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Cisco [Chowan County].
- Texas
- Eastland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Cisco [Eastland County].
- Utah
- Grand County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Cisco [Grand County].
- West Virginia
- Ritchie County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Cisco [Ritchie County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cisco ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Cisco:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
George#&160;F. Cram Map (1922)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Cisco.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 40/14550 (Place Name: Cisco)
County: McCurtain (FIPS State/County: 40/089)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Cisco) 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 McCurtain 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 McCurtain County.
| Boktuklo | Janis |
| Boss | July |
| Cerrogordo | Kulli |
| Craig | |
| Miller Court House | |
| East Port | |
| Noah | |
| Holley Creek | North Valliant |
| Ida | Odell |
| Jadie | Pollard |
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 Cisco 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/ |