Do you know of McKinney ???

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

Our sources for McKinney (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 McKinney other than they indicate that McKinney would be found somewhere in Placer 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.

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 McKinney ...

We found eleven communities that share the name McKinney.

Within California, the name McKinney is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Bradley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of McKinney [Bradley County].
  - Cleveland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of McKinney [Cleveland County].
  - Miller County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of McKinney [Miller County].
- Georgia
  - Upson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of McKinney [Upson County].
- Kansas
  - Douglas 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 McKinney [Douglas County].
- Kentucky
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of McKinney [Lincoln County].
- North Dakota
  - Renville 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 North Dakota community of McKinney [Renville County].
- Oklahoma
  - Noble 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 Oklahoma community of McKinney [Noble County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Cumberland 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 Pennsylvania community of McKinney [Cumberland County].
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of McKinney [Franklin County].
- Texas
  - Collin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of McKinney [Collin County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for McKinney ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Placer 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 Placer County.

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 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 McKinney 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.