Do you know of Cairo ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cairo. 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 Cairo.
We found mention of Cairo as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Edgefield County, South Carolina.
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.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1840 and closed in 1883.
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 Cairo ...
We found 31 communities that share the name Cairo.
Within South Carolina, the name Cairo is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 28 communities, 27 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
In addition to the above occurrences of Cairo, we know of three communities located outside of the United States and Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Limestone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cairo [Limestone County].
- Arkansas
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Cairo [Union County].
- Florida
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Alexander County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Cairo [Alexander County].
- Indiana
- Tippecanoe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Cairo [Tippecanoe County].
- Iowa
- Louisa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Cairo [Louisa County].
- Kansas
- Pratt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Cairo [Pratt County].
- Kentucky
- Henderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Cairo [Henderson County].
- Mississippi
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Cairo [Clay County].
- Pontotoc County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Cairo [Pontotoc County].
- Prentiss County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Cairo [Prentiss County].
- Missouri
- Randolph County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Cairo [Randolph County].
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Hall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Cairo [Hall County].
- New York
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Cairo [Greene County].
- North Carolina
- Anson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Cairo [Anson County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Coal County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Cairo [Coal County].
- Ontario
- Oregon
- Malheur County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Cairo [Malheur County].
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Jasper County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Cairo [Jasper County].
- West Virginia
- Ritchie County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Cairo [Ritchie County].
- Alabama
- Communities Beyond North America ...
- Costa Rica
- We haven't found the location of this Cairo
- Egypt
- We haven't found the location of this Cairo
- Italy
- We haven't found the location of this Cairo
- Costa Rica
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cairo ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Cairo:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Edgefield 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 Edgefield County.
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 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 Cairo 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/ |