Post Offices

Post Offices

Delaware County, Oklahoma

In researching early communities, we often encounter information concerning name "changes". Of course, some did change their names, but more often what appeared to be a change of name was simply the result of consolidation of Post Offices. By today's standards, early Post Offices were very close together. Consolidation of services started almost immediately, so that many small offices existed for only a few years.

When a Post Office ceased to exist, its mail was "discontinued to" a nearby successor office. If the two offices were close enough, the effect was much the same as a simple name change. Often, though, Post Offices were discontinued across Township, County, and even Territorial boundaries.

Names of discontinued offices were often reassigned to newly authorized ones, so that the same name may appear in different parts of the state at different times. There are also cases of Post Offices in different Nations bearing the same name at the same time. All of which can quickly lead the unwary researcher astray so it's important to consider both time and location in searching for one of these offices.

With incomplete information, you might experience the frustration of looking for a Garden family in the wrong township and wrong county on the 1900 census. Or if you didn't know that there were two Douglas Post Offices over 50 miles apart you might be searching the wrong part of the state - a classic wild goose chase. But whether you are searching the census and land records, or trying to find what would have been the local school, church, or cemetery - knowledge of the history and geography of an area will lead you in the right direction.

Information from The Chronicles of Oklahoma

For a Complete listing of Towns go to Post Offices in Oklahoma

Thank you to Susan Bradford for providing this information and to Sharon McAllister for maintaining the Post Offices in Oklahoma pages.

The information below is just the Delaware Post Office listings from Post Offices in Oklahoma pages. I have copied these for your convenience in researching Delaware Co.

Post Office	Zip Code	Active	Predecessor /Successor
Beckwith	none	1895-1898	To Kansas
Bernice	74331	1913-1960	From Needmore
Bolin	none	1890-1893	To Vinita
Cary's Ferry	none	1873-1888	To Echo
Cayuga	none	1884-1912	Unknown
Chloeta	none	1894-1904	Unknown
Cleora	none	1900-1954	From Klaus
Colcord	74338	1930	Active
Cove	none	1903-1916	Unknown
Dennis	none	1914-1946	Unknown
Dodge	none	1901-1941	From Hill
Echo	none	1881-1909	Unknown
Eucha	74342	1900	Active
Flint	none	1900-1951	Unknown
Fly Creek	none	1878-1879	To Horse Creek
Grove	74344	1888	Active
Jay	74346	1909	Active
Kansas	74347	1895	Unknown
Kenwood	none	1922	Unknown
Klaus	none	1896-1900	To Cleora
Leach	74351	1897	From Ulm
Oaks	74359	1881
Odeleda			Unknown
Olympus		1885-1895	To Grove
Row		1905-1930	To Colcord
Turkey Ford		1904-1955
Twin Oaks	74368	1946