Do you know of Israel ???

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

Our sources for Israel (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 Israel other than they indicate that Israel would be found somewhere in Freestone County, Texas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1897 and closed  in 1909.

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 Israel ...

We found three communities that share the name Israel.

There is one other community in Texas which is also named Israel.

Beyond Texas, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Located In Texas ...
  • Polk County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Israel [Polk County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Ohio
    • Lawrence County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Israel [Lawrence County].
  • West Virginia
    • Preston County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Israel [Preston County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Israel ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Rand McNally Map of Texas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Freestone 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 Freestone County.