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Do you know of Adair ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Adair, so we are uncertain whether Adair is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Adair would be found somewhere in Ellis County, Kansas.

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 Adair ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Adair.

Within Kansas, the name Adair is unique.

Beyond Kansas, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Colorado
      • Las Animas 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 Colorado community of Adair [Las Animas County].
    • Georgia
      • Murray 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 Georgia community of Adair [Murray County].
    • Idaho
      • Shoshone County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Adair [Shoshone County].
    • Illinois
      • McDonough County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Adair [McDonough County].
    • Iowa
      • Adair County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Adair [Adair County].
    • Kentucky
      • Hancock County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Adair [Hancock County].
    • Michigan
      • Saint Clair County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Adair [Saint Clair County].
    • Minnesota
      • Freeborn 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 Minnesota community of Adair [Freeborn County].
    • Mississippi
      • Carroll County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Adair [Carroll County].
    • Missouri
      • Adair County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Adair [Adair County].
    • Ohio
      • Columbiana County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Adair [Columbiana County].
      • Monroe 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 Adair [Monroe County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Mayes County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Adair [Mayes County].
    • Ontario
      • 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 Ontario community of Adair.
    • Tennessee
      • Madison County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Adair [Madison County].
    • Texas
      • Swisher 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 Texas community of Adair [Swisher County].
      • Terry County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Adair [Terry County].

More Orphans in  Ellis 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 Ellis County.

AllianceNorfolk
 North Fork
Bantam 
Big CreekPalatine
Big TimberPalmer
 Paul Doon Station
Chetolah 
 Riverview
Dolan's RanchRome
  
EasdaleSaline
 San Antonio
HerzogSmoky Hill
HyacinthStockrange
 Stormy Hollow
LangleySweetwater
Lookout Station 
Louisa SpringsVincent
  
MartinWadsworth
MendotaWalker Creek
 Wiles

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 Adair 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.









 

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