Do you know of Bancroft ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bancroft. 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 Bancroft.
We found mention of Bancroft as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Coffey County, Kansas.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1876 and closed in 1882.
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 Bancroft ...
We found 25 communities that share the name Bancroft.
There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Bancroft.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 24 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Nemaha County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Bancroft [Nemaha County].
- Nemaha County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Contra Costa County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Bancroft [Contra Costa County].
- Georgia
- Early County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Bancroft [Early County].
- Idaho
- Caribou County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Bancroft [Caribou County].
- Iowa
- Kossuth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Bancroft [Kossuth County].
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Beauregard Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Bancroft [Beauregard Parish].
- Maine
- Aroostook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Bancroft [Aroostook County].
- Maryland
- Anne Arundel County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Bancroft [Anne Arundel County].
- Massachusetts
- Berkshire 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 Massachusetts community of Bancroft [Berkshire County].
- Hampshire County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Bancroft [Hampshire County].
- Michigan
- Marquette 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 Michigan community of Bancroft [Marquette County].
- Shiawassee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Bancroft [Shiawassee County].
- Minnesota
- Freeborn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Bancroft [Freeborn County].
- Missouri
- Daviess County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Bancroft [Daviess County].
- Nebraska
- Cuming County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Bancroft [Cuming County].
- Ohio
- Stark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bancroft [Stark County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Bancroft.
- Oregon
- Coos County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Bancroft [Coos County].
- Pennsylvania
- South Dakota
- Kingsbury County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Bancroft [Kingsbury County].
- Texas
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Bancroft [Orange County].
- West Virginia
- Putnam County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Bancroft [Putnam County].
- Wisconsin
- Portage County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Bancroft [Portage County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bancroft ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bancroft:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
More Orphans in Coffey 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 Coffey 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Bancroft 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/ |