Do you know of Okete ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Okete. 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 Okete.<1> Our sources for Okete (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 Okete other than they indicate that Okete would be found somewhere in York County, Pennsylvania. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1886 and closed in 1907. Communities Also Named Okete ...We found one communities that share the name Okete. Within Pennsylvania, the name Okete is unique. Beyond Pennsylvania, there is another community also named Okete in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Okete ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Okete: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Okete - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
More Orphans in York 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 York County. Footnotes ...
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