Do you know of Junction City ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Junction City. 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 Junction City.
Our sources for Junction City (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 Junction City other than they indicate that Junction City would be found somewhere in Gallatin County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 and closed in 1894.
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 Junction City ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Junction City.
There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Junction City.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Junction City [Marion County].
- Marion County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Junction City [Union County].
- California
- Trinity County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Junction City [Trinity County].
- Georgia
- Talbot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Junction City [Talbot County].
- Kansas
- Geary County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Junction City [Geary County].
- Kentucky
- Boyle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Junction City [Boyle County].
- Louisiana
- Claiborne Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Junction City [Claiborne Parish].
- Mississippi
- Clarke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Junction City [Clarke County].
- Missouri
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Junction City [Madison County].
- Nevada
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Junction City [Clark County].
- Ohio
- Fairfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Junction City [Fairfield County].
- Perry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Junction City [Perry County].
- Oregon
- Lane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Junction City [Lane County].
- South Dakota
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Junction City [Union County].
- Washington
- Grays Harbor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Junction City [Grays Harbor County].
- 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 Washington community of Junction City [Jefferson County].
- Wisconsin
- Portage County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Junction City [Portage County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Junction City ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Junction City:
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 Junction City - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Gallatin 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 Gallatin County.
| Bartley | Rankston |
| Cypress Junction | Saline Mines |
| South Hampton | |
| Duncan | |
| Tromly | |
| New Shawneetown | |
| Wells |
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Junction City 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/ |