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Do you know of Kansas ???

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

Our sources for Kansas (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 Kansas other than they indicate that Kansas would be found somewhere in Carroll County, Georgia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1876 and closed  in 1883.

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 Kansas ...

We found ten communities that share the name Kansas.

Within Georgia, the name Kansas is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Walker County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Kansas [Walker County].
    • Arkansas
      • Clark County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Kansas [Clark County].
    • Illinois
      • Edgar County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Kansas [Edgar County].
    • Indiana
      • Bartholomew County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Kansas [Bartholomew County].
    • Kentucky
      • Graves County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Kansas [Graves County].
    • Ohio
      • Seneca County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Kansas [Seneca County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Delaware County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Kansas [Delaware County].
    • Tennessee
      • Jefferson 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 Tennessee community of Kansas [Jefferson County].
      • Sumner County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Kansas [Sumner County].
    • Vermont
      • Bennington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Kansas [Bennington County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Kansas ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Map from 1883 (unknown title/publisher)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Kansas.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 13/42912   (Place Name: Kansas)

County: Carroll     (FIPS State/County: 13/045)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Kansas) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Carroll 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 Carroll County.

Allen's MillsHickory Level
 Holland's Mills
BargeHulett
Bennie 
BerleneLilac
BillowLockville
 Loyal
Catie 
Center PointPlug
Cheever 
County LineReavesville
 Rett
Deer CreekRotherwood
Dot 
 Sandy Grove
FullervilleSiver
 Stell
GenolaStogner
  
HarmanWansley

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 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 Kansas 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/









 

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