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Do you know of Idalia ???

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

Our sources for Idalia (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Idalia other than they indicate that Idalia would be found somewhere in Arapahoe County, Colorado.

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 Idalia ...

We found four communities that share the name Idalia.

There is one other community in Colorado which is also named Idalia.

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

  • Communities Located In Colorado ...
    • Yuma County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Idalia [Yuma County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Leon 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 Florida community of Idalia [Leon County].
    • Missouri
      • Stoddard County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Idalia [Stoddard County].
    • North Carolina
      • Beaufort County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Idalia [Beaufort County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Idalia ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Arapahoe 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 Arapahoe County.

Arapahoe EastKingsborough South
ArapahoeKirk
Argo Junction 
Argo ParkLansing
ArgoLeyner Spur
ArickareeLinden
 Littleton Southeast
BarnumLogan
BarrLyman
Bennett 
BerkeleyMagnolia
BerlinManchester
BoulderMelvin
BrightonMilitary Junction
BrookridgeMilitary Park
BurnhamMilitary Post
 Missouri City
Canon CityMontclair
ChaddsfordMooreville
CherrelynMount Vernon
Cherry CreekMountain City
Cherrywood Village 
Colorado CityNevada
Columbine KnollsNewton
CondonNob Hill
CopeNorth Cherry Creek Valley
Corcoran 
CoronadoOakes
CrestmoorOrchard Plaza
 Oro City
DerblayOverland Park
Derby 
 Petersburgh
Eastridge South 
EbertQuincy
  
Fort WiseRembrandt Place
FoxRidgeview Hills
FriendRiverside
  
GatewayScranton
GlobevilleSheridan Junction
Grant SmelterShields
 Skyline
HaleSouth Denver
HamiltonSouthwind
HarmanSouthwood
HarrisSpanish Bar
HarrisburgStrasburgh
Hatchery 
HendersonTarryall
HeritageThurman
HighlandsTimbers
HowellsTownsend
Huntsville 
 University Park
IndependenceUtah Junction
Inthe 
IrondaleValverde
Island StationVista Verde
  
JeffersonWales
JerseyWalnut Hills
JohnstownWashburn
 Watkins
Kenwood 

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Idalia 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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