Do you know of Elmore ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Elmore. 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 Elmore.
Our sources for Elmore (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 Elmore other than they indicate that Elmore would be found somewhere in Garvin County, Oklahoma.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 and closed in 1910.
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 Elmore ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Elmore.
Within Oklahoma, the name Elmore is unique.
Beyond Oklahoma, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Elmore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Elmore [Elmore County].
- Arkansas
- Hot Spring County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Elmore [Hot Spring County].
- California
- Shasta County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Elmore [Shasta County].
- Georgia
- Burke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Elmore [Burke County].
- Illinois
- Peoria County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Elmore [Peoria County].
- Maine
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Elmore [Knox County].
- Minnesota
- Faribault County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Elmore [Faribault County].
- North Carolina
- Scotland County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Elmore [Scotland County].
- North Dakota
- Richland County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Elmore [Richland County].
- Ohio
- Ottawa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Elmore [Ottawa County].
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Elmore [Lawrence County].
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Hall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Elmore [Hall County].
- Vermont
- West Virginia
- Wyoming County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Elmore [Wyoming County].
- Wisconsin
- Fond du Lac County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Elmore [Fond du Lac County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Elmore ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Elmore:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Oklahoma (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Garvin 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 Garvin County.
| Robberson | |
| Theoda |
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 Elmore 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/ |