Do you know of Saint Elmo ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Saint Elmo. 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 Saint Elmo.<1>
We found mention of Saint Elmo as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1867 and closed in 1871.
Communities Also Named Saint Elmo ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Saint Elmo.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Saint Elmo is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Mobile County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Saint Elmo [Mobile County].
- California
- San Bernardino County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Saint Elmo [San Bernardino County].
- Colorado
- Chaffee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Saint Elmo [Chaffee County].
- Illinois
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Saint Elmo [Fayette County].
- Kentucky
- Christian County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Saint Elmo [Christian County].
- Louisiana
- Ascension Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Saint Elmo [Ascension Parish].
- Saint James Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Saint Elmo [Saint James Parish].
- Michigan
- Midland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Saint Elmo [Midland County].
- Mississippi
- Claiborne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Saint Elmo [Claiborne County].
- Nevada
- Nye County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Saint Elmo [Nye County].
- New York
- Ulster County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Saint Elmo [Ulster County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Saint Elmo.
- Tennessee
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Saint Elmo [Hamilton County].
- Shelby County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Saint Elmo [Shelby County].
- Texas
- Freestone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Saint Elmo [Freestone County].
- Travis County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Saint Elmo [Travis County].
- Virginia
- Alexandria City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Saint Elmo [Alexandria City].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Saint Elmo ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Saint Elmo:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Allegheny 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 Allegheny County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Saint Elmo 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. |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |