Welcome to Asphodel ...

Although we found mention of Asphodel during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> We believe that Asphodel had a post office at one time. We have done a cursory search and haven't been able to find any evidence that the community still exists..

We've added Asphodel to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Asphodel - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Asphodel, please Contact Us.

Time Zone: The area where we believe that Asphodel might be (or was) located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time. The time zone in French: EST- Heure Normale de l'Est (HNE), EDT- Heure Avancée de l'Est (HAE).

Area Codes for Asphodel: 705, 249 & 683<2>

Adding Asphodel to Our Gazetteer ...

As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Asphodel was in the book titled SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Ontario.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Asphodel.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/

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. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went north past Asphodel and then turned west". While Asphodel could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Asphodel as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.

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 Asphodel 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 . 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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When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 705 code has been Overlayed with one of the following codes: 249 or 683. New phone numbers in the Asphodel area will be assigned with one of these codes: 705, 249 or 683. As a result, placing a call in the Asphodel area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).