Do you know of Carbon ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Carbon, so we are uncertain whether Carbon 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 Carbon would be found somewhere in Crawford 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 Carbon ...

We found eighteen communities that share the name Carbon.

There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Carbon.

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

Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Carbon [Jackson County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Carbon.
- California
  - Shasta County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Carbon [Shasta County].
- Illinois
  - Saint Clair County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Carbon [Saint Clair County].
- Indiana
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Carbon [Clay County].
- Iowa
  - Adams County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Carbon [Adams County].
  - Davis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Carbon [Davis County].
- Missouri
  - Macon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Carbon [Macon County].
- Oklahoma
  - Pittsburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Carbon [Pittsburg County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Bradford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Carbon [Bradford County].
  - Carbon 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 Carbon [Carbon County].
  - Lawrence 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 Carbon [Lawrence County].
  - Mercer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Carbon [Mercer County].
  - Westmoreland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Carbon [Westmoreland County].
- Texas
  - Eastland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Carbon [Eastland County].
  - Webb 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 Carbon [Webb County].
- West Virginia
  - Kanawha County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Carbon [Kanawha County].
- Wyoming
  - Carbon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Carbon [Carbon County].

More Orphans in Crawford 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 Crawford County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Carbon 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.