Do you know of Culver ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Culver. 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 Culver.
Our sources for Culver (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 Culver other than they indicate that Culver would be found somewhere in Matagorda County, Texas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 and closed in 1895.
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 Culver ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Culver.
Within Texas, the name Culver is unique.
Beyond Texas, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Culver [Hillsborough County].
- Idaho
- Bonner County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Culver [Bonner County].
- Illinois
- Menard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Culver [Menard County].
- Indiana
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Culver [Marshall County].
- Tippecanoe 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 Indiana community of Culver [Tippecanoe County].
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Ottawa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Culver [Ottawa County].
- Kentucky
- Elliott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Culver [Elliott County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Culver.
- Michigan
- Arenac 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 Michigan community of Culver [Arenac County].
- Kalkaska 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 Michigan community of Culver [Kalkaska County].
- Minnesota
- Saint Louis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Culver [Saint Louis County].
- New Jersey
- Oregon
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Culver [Jefferson County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Culver ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Culver:
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 Culver - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Matagorda 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 Matagorda County.
| Beadle | |
| South Bay City | |
| Hardeman | |
| Trespalacios | |
| Runnels |
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Culver 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/ |