Do you know of Cottage Grove ???

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

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

We found seventeen communities that share the name Cottage Grove.

Within Kansas, the name Cottage Grove is unique.

Beyond Kansas, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Coosa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cottage Grove [Coosa County].
- California
  - Siskiyou County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Cottage Grove [Siskiyou County].
- Connecticut
  - Hartford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Cottage Grove [Hartford County].
- Illinois
  - Cook 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 Illinois community of Cottage Grove [Cook County].
  - Saline County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Cottage Grove [Saline County].
- Indiana
  - Union County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Cottage Grove [Union County].
- Iowa
  - Polk 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 Iowa community of Cottage Grove [Polk County].
- Maryland
  - Somerset County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Cottage Grove [Somerset County].
- Michigan
  - Roscommon 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 Cottage Grove [Roscommon County].
  - Wayne 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 Michigan community of Cottage Grove [Wayne County].
- Minnesota
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Cottage Grove [Washington County].
- Nebraska
  - Richardson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Cottage Grove [Richardson County].
- Ohio
  - Summit County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Cottage Grove [Summit County].
- Oregon
  - Lane County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Cottage Grove [Lane County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Cottage Grove [Lawrence County].
- Tennessee
  - Henry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Cottage Grove [Henry County].
- Wisconsin
  - Dane County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Cottage Grove [Dane County].

More Orphans in Allen 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 Allen 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 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 Cottage Grove 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.