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 community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Shelby County, Tennessee.

Communities Also Named Saint Elmo ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Saint Elmo.

There is one other community in Tennessee which is also named Saint Elmo.

Beyond Tennessee, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Hamilton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Saint Elmo [Hamilton County].

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.
- 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.<2> 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].

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:

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

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

Rand McNally Map of Tennessee (1888)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Shelby County ...

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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 Shelby County.

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 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.