Do you know of Mesa ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Mesa. 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 Mesa.
Our sources for Mesa (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 Mesa other than they indicate that Mesa would be found somewhere in Randall County, Texas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1892.
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 Mesa ...
We found fourteen communities that share the name Mesa.
There is one other community in Texas which is also named Mesa.
Beyond Texas, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Texas ...
- El Paso County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Mesa [El Paso County].
- El Paso County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Maricopa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Mesa [Maricopa County].
- Arkansas
- Prairie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Mesa [Prairie County].
- California
- Colorado
- Adams 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 Colorado community of Mesa [Adams County].
- El Paso 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 Colorado community of Mesa [El Paso County].
- Mesa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Mesa [Mesa County].
- Pueblo 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 Colorado community of Mesa [Pueblo County].
- Idaho
- Adams County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Mesa [Adams County].
- Mississippi
- Walthall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Mesa [Walthall County].
- New Mexico
- Washington
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Mesa [Franklin County].
- Arizona
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mesa ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Mesa:
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 Mesa - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Randall 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 Randall County.
| Haney | |
| West Texas | |
| Ralls | Westhaven Park |
| Ridgecrest |
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 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 Mesa 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/ |