Do you know of Council ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Council. 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 Council.
Our sources for Council (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 Council other than they indicate that Council would be found somewhere in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1894 and closed in 1906.
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 Council ...
We found eight communities that share the name Council.
There is one other community in Oklahoma which is also named Council.
Beyond Oklahoma, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Oklahoma ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alaska
- Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Council.
- Arkansas
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Council [Lee County].
- Florida
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Council [Lee County].
- Georgia
- Clinch County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Council [Clinch County].
- Idaho
- Adams County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Council [Adams County].
- North Carolina
- Bladen County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Council [Bladen County].
- Virginia
- Buchanan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Council [Buchanan County].
- Alaska
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Council ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Council:
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.
Rand McNally Map of Oklahoma (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Council.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 40/17500 (Place Name: Council)
County: Oklahoma (FIPS State/County: 40/109)
Class: U4
Identifies a populated place (ie- Council) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.
More Orphans in Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma County.
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Council 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/ |