Do you know of Chilli ???

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

Our sources for Chilli (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 Chilli other than they indicate that Chilli would be found somewhere in Hancock County, Illinois.

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 Chilli ...

We found one communities that share the name Chilli.

Within Illinois, the name Chilli is unique.

Beyond Illinois, there is another community also named Chilli in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Oklahoma
    • Latimer County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Chilli [Latimer County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Chilli ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Hancock County ...

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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 Hancock County.