Do you know of Drake ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Drake. 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 Drake.
Our sources for Drake (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 Drake other than they indicate that Drake would be found somewhere in Greene County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1902 and closed in 1918.
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 Drake ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Drake.
Within Illinois, the name Drake is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 21 communities, nineteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- California
- Santa Barbara County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Drake [Santa Barbara County].
- Colorado
- Larimer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Drake [Larimer County].
- Kansas
- Jackson 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 Drake [Jackson County].
- Ness County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Drake [Ness County].
- Kentucky
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Drake [Warren County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Drake.
- Michigan
- Missouri
- Gasconade County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Drake [Gasconade County].
- Saint Louis 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 Missouri community of Drake [Saint Louis County].
- North Carolina
- Nash County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Drake [Nash County].
- North Dakota
- McHenry County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Drake [McHenry County].
- Ohio
- Defiance 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 Ohio community of Drake [Defiance County].
- Muskingum County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Drake [Muskingum County].
- Oklahoma
- Murray County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Drake [Murray County].
- Pennsylvania
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Drake [Lawrence County].
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Drake.
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Drake ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Drake:
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 Drake - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned
Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)
SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Great Lakes West
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2005
(Available from Amazon.com)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Drake.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 17/20695 (Place Name: Drake)
County: Greene (FIPS State/County: 17/061)
Class: X3
More Orphans in Greene 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 Greene County.
| Baldwin | |
| Bluff Dale | New Providence |
| Breese | |
| Bridgewater | Pioneer |
| Daum | Riverdale |
| Road House Station | |
| Felter | |
| Schutz Mills | |
| Happyville | |
| Wrightsville | |
| Letcherville |
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 Drake 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/ |