Do you know of Grover ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Grover. 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 Grover.
Our sources for Grover (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 Grover other than they indicate that Grover would be found somewhere in Edgar County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 and closed in 1898.
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 Grover ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Grover.
There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Grover.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Grover [Cherokee County].
- Colorado
- Weld County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Grover [Weld County].
- Florida
- Georgia
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Michigan
- Calhoun 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 Michigan community of Grover [Calhoun County].
- Houghton 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 Michigan community of Grover [Houghton County].
- Oakland 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 Michigan community of Grover [Oakland County].
- Minnesota
- Winona County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Grover [Winona County].
- Missouri
- Saint Louis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Grover [Saint Louis County].
- Nebraska
- Seward County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Grover [Seward County].
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- Cleveland County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Grover [Cleveland County].
- Pennsylvania
- Bradford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Grover [Bradford County].
- South Carolina
- Dorchester County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Grover [Dorchester County].
- South Dakota
- Codington County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Grover [Codington County].
- Tennessee
- Utah
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Grover [Wayne County].
- Wyoming
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Grover ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Grover:
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 Grover - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Edgar 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 Edgar County.
| Borton Junction | May's Station |
| Bowman | Midland |
| Midway | |
| Craig's | |
| Neely | |
| Embarrass Point | |
| Payne | |
| Ferrell | |
| Flemington | Scotland |
| Swango | |
| Garnes | |
| Warrenton |
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 Grover 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/ |