Do you know of Zion ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Zion. 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 Zion.
Our sources for Zion (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 Zion other than they indicate that Zion would be found somewhere in Carroll County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1881 and closed in 1905.
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 Zion ...
We found 33 communities that share the name Zion.
There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Zion.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another 32 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 32 communities, 32 are located in the United States and six are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Zion [Lake County].
- Lake County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Izard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Zion [Izard County].
- Florida
- Dade County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Zion [Dade County].
- Georgia
- Appling County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Zion [Appling County].
- Iowa
- Adair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Zion [Adair County].
- Kentucky
- Grant 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 Kentucky community of Zion [Grant County].
- Greenup 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 Kentucky community of Zion [Greenup County].
- Henderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Zion [Henderson County].
- Todd County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Zion [Todd County].
- Louisiana
- Grant Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Zion [Grant Parish].
- Maryland
- Cecil County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Zion [Cecil County].
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Pontotoc County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Zion [Pontotoc County].
- Missouri
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Zion [Madison County].
- New Jersey
- Somerset County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Zion [Somerset County].
- North Carolina
- Cleveland County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Zion [Cleveland County].
- Iredell County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Zion [Iredell County].
- Yadkin 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 North Carolina community of Zion [Yadkin County].
- North Dakota
- Oklahoma
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- Centre County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Zion [Centre County].
- Franklin 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 Pennsylvania community of Zion [Franklin County].
- Luzerne 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 Pennsylvania community of Zion [Luzerne County].
- South Carolina
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Zion [Marion County].
- Tennessee
- Maury County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Zion [Maury County].
- Utah
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Zion [Washington County].
- Virginia
- Louisa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Zion [Louisa County].
- West Virginia
- Upshur County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Zion [Upshur County].
- Wisconsin
- Winnebago County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Zion [Winnebago County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Zion ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Zion:
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 Zion - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
The FIPS database contains an entry for Zion.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 17/84207 (Place Name: Zion)
County: Carroll (FIPS State/County: 17/015)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Zion) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Carroll 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 Carroll County.
| Argo | Grandview |
| Armenian | |
| Ashdale | Lake Carroll |
| Ayres Siding | |
| Nursery | |
| Big Cut | |
| Riverview | |
| Cherry Grove | Rock Creek |
| Fay | Timber Lake |
| Timbuctoo |
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 Zion 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/ |