Do you know of Tell ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1887 and closed  in 1889.

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 Tell ...

We found four communities that share the name Tell.

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

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

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Georgia
    • Fulton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Tell [Fulton County].
  • Kansas
    • Dickinson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Tell [Dickinson County].
  • Wisconsin
    • Buffalo County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Tell [Buffalo County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Tell ...

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Stonewall 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 Stonewall County.