Do you know of Delavan ???

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

We found mention of Delavan as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Colusa County, California.

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.

Communities Also Named Delavan ...

We found seven communities that share the name Delavan.

Within California, the name Delavan is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
  - Tazewell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Delavan [Tazewell County].
- Kansas
  - Clay 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 Kansas community of Delavan [Clay County].
  - Morris County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Delavan [Morris County].
- Minnesota
  - Faribault County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Delavan [Faribault County].
- Missouri
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Delavan [Jackson County].
- New York
  - Erie 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 New York community of Delavan [Erie County].
- Wisconsin
  - Walworth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Delavan [Walworth County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Delavan ...

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

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

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

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - California & Nevada
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2002
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Delavan.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 06/18408 (Place Name: Delavan (Delevan))

County: Colusa (FIPS State/County: 06/011)

Class: X3

More Orphans in Colusa 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 Colusa County.

Athena
	Logandale
Berlin	Lyman

Cobble	Macy
Colusa Junction	Malton
	Meridian
Epperson	Midway
	Mills
Gillmore	Millsholm
Greenwood
	Sulphur Creek
Halconera
	Vanado
Kurand

Footnotes ...

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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 Delavan 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.