Do you know of Argo ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Argo. 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 Argo.
Our sources for Argo (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 Argo other than they indicate that Argo would be found somewhere in Carroll County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1851 and closed in 1901.
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 Argo ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Argo.
There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Argo.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Colorado
- Delaware
- Georgia
- Iowa
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Argo [Scott County].
- Kentucky
- Pike County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Argo [Pike County].
- Louisiana
- Catahoula Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Argo [Catahoula Parish].
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Crawford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Argo [Crawford County].
- Montana
- Broadwater County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Argo [Broadwater County].
- Nebraska
- Burt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Argo [Burt County].
- Nevada
- Lyon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Argo [Lyon County].
- North Carolina
- South Dakota
- Texas
- Washington
- West Virginia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Argo ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Argo:
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 Argo - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Argo.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 17/01998 (Place Name: Argo)
County: Carroll (FIPS State/County: 17/015)
Class: X3
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.
| Armenian | Lake Carroll |
| Ashdale | |
| Ayres Siding | Nursery |
| Big Cut | Riverview |
| Rock Creek | |
| Cherry Grove | |
| Timber Lake | |
| Fay | Timbuctoo |
| Grandview | Zion |
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 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 Argo 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/ |