Do you know of Oak Mound ???

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

Our sources for Oak Mound (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 Oak Mound other than they indicate that Oak Mound would be found somewhere in Fulton County, Illinois.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1880 and closed  in 1891.

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 Oak Mound ...

We found one communities that share the name Oak Mound.

Within Illinois, the name Oak Mound is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Missouri
    • Ozark County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Oak Mound [Ozark County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Oak Mound ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Oak Mound - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

More Orphans in  Fulton 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 Fulton County.