Do you know of Big Bend ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Big Bend. 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 Big Bend.
Our sources for Big Bend (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 Big Bend other than they indicate that Big Bend would be found somewhere in Phillips County, Kansas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1876 and closed in 1895.
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 Big Bend ...
We found 23 communities that share the name Big Bend.
There are two communities within Kansas that are also named Big Bend.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Jewell County
- Republic County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- California
- Butte County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Big Bend [Butte County].
- Calaveras County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Big Bend [Calaveras County].
- Placer County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Big Bend [Placer County].
- Shasta County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Big Bend [Shasta County].
- Sonoma County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Big Bend [Sonoma County].
- Colorado
- Bent County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Big Bend [Bent County].
- Florida
- Louisiana
- Avoyelles Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Big Bend [Avoyelles Parish].
- Michigan
- Newaygo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Big Bend [Newaygo County].
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- New York
- Onondaga County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Big Bend [Onondaga County].
- North Dakota
- Pennsylvania
- Mercer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Big Bend [Mercer County].
- Venango 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 Big Bend [Venango County].
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Big Bend [Warren County].
- South Dakota
- Pennington County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Big Bend [Pennington County].
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Waukesha County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Big Bend [Waukesha County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Big Bend ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Big Bend:
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 Big Bend - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
Rand McNally Map of Kansas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Phillips 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 Phillips 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 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 Big Bend 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/ |