Do you know of Milan ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Milan. 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 Milan.
Our sources for Milan (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 Milan other than they indicate that Milan would be found somewhere in Yell County, Arkansas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1886 and closed in 1894.
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 Milan ...
We found 22 communities that share the name Milan.
Within Arkansas, the name Milan is unique.
Beyond Arkansas, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 22 communities, 21 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Milan [Jackson County].
- Florida
- Georgia
- Telfair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Milan [Telfair County].
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Ripley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Milan [Ripley County].
- Kansas
- Sumner County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Milan [Sumner County].
- Kentucky
- Michigan
- Washtenaw County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Milan [Washtenaw County].
- Minnesota
- Chippewa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Milan [Chippewa County].
- Missouri
- Sullivan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Milan [Sullivan County].
- New Hampshire
- Coos County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Milan [Coos County].
- New Mexico
- Cibola County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Milan [Cibola County].
- New York
- Dutchess County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Milan [Dutchess County].
- Ohio
- Erie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Milan [Erie County].
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Bradford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Milan [Bradford County].
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Milan.
- Tennessee
- Gibson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Milan [Gibson County].
- Virginia
- Washington
- Spokane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Milan [Spokane County].
- Wisconsin
- Marathon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Milan [Marathon County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Milan ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Milan:
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 Milan - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Yell 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 Yell County.
| Balloon | Jennings Falls |
| Box Spring | |
| Bragg | Kenzie |
| Cedarville | Liberty Hall |
| Damon | Neely |
| Epsy | Oates |
| Omega | |
| Fair Hill | |
| Riley | |
| Gravelly Hill | |
| Walnut Tree | |
| Hopper Creek | Ward |
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 Milan 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/ |