Do you know of Ida ???

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

Our sources for Ida (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 Ida other than they indicate that Ida would be found somewhere in Hyde County, South Dakota.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1886 and closed in 1919.

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 Ida ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Ida.

Within South Dakota, the name Ida is unique.

Beyond South Dakota, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Cleburne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Ida [Cleburne County].
- Florida
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Ida [Hillsborough County].
- Kansas
  - Harper County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Ida [Harper County].
  - Republic County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Ida [Republic County].
- Kentucky
  - Clinton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Ida [Clinton County].
- Louisiana
  - Caddo Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Ida [Caddo Parish].
- Michigan
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Ida [Monroe County].
- Missouri
  - Livingston County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Ida [Livingston County].
- North Carolina
  - Scotland County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ida [Scotland County].
- Ohio
  - Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ida [Lawrence County].
- Ontario
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Ida.
- Texas
  - Grayson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ida [Grayson County].
- Virginia
  - Page County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ida [Page County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ida ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Ida - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in Hyde 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 Hyde County.

Afton	Goudyville

Chapelle	Hawley

Edwin	Sedgwick

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 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 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 Ida 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/