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Do you know of Idelah ???

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

Our sources for Idelah (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 Idelah other than they indicate that Idelah would be found somewhere in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1889 and closed  in 1891.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Idelah ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.


Found a mention of Idelah, but no details.

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.

Ball 
BellKaren Park
Belle Isle 
BraumLakeside
 Lecox
Carter ParkLockhart
CavettLoneview
Center 
ChaddickMcLemore
CimarronMiller
CouncilMunger
Creston Hill 
CrudoNowers
  
DerecoOwanda
Douglas 
 Red Horse
FarleyRosedale
  
GabeServado
Goodner SpurShartel
GreigSilver
 Springlake Park
Hartzell 
Highland BeachWest Nichols Hills
 Whisler
JoyWillow Springs

Footnotes ...

<1>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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