Do you know of Athens ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Athens. 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 Athens.
Our sources for Athens (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 Athens other than they indicate that Athens would be found somewhere in Jewell County, Kansas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1871 and closed in 1901.
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 Athens ...
We found 28 communities that share the name Athens.
There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Athens.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 27 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Woodson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Athens [Woodson County].
- Woodson County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Limestone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Athens [Limestone County].
- Arkansas
- Howard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Athens [Howard County].
- California
- Los Angeles County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Athens [Los Angeles County].
- Georgia
- Clarke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Athens [Clarke County].
- Illinois
- Menard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Athens [Menard County].
- Indiana
- Fulton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Athens [Fulton County].
- Kentucky
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Athens [Fayette County].
- Louisiana
- Claiborne Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Athens [Claiborne Parish].
- Maine
- Somerset County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Athens [Somerset County].
- Michigan
- Calhoun County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Athens [Calhoun County].
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Athens [Monroe County].
- Missouri
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Athens [Clark County].
- Nebraska
- Richardson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Athens [Richardson County].
- Nevada
- Nye County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Athens [Nye County].
- New York
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Athens [Greene County].
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Athens County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Athens [Athens County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Athens.
- Pennsylvania
- Bradford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Athens [Bradford County].
- Tennessee
- McMinn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Athens [McMinn County].
- Texas
- Henderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Athens [Henderson County].
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Athens [Salt Lake County].
- Vermont
- Windham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Athens [Windham County].
- Virginia
- Caroline County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Athens [Caroline County].
- West Virginia
- Mercer County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Athens [Mercer County].
- Wisconsin
- Marathon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Athens [Marathon County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Athens ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Athens:
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 Athens - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Jewell 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 Jewell County.
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 Athens 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/ |