Do you know of Crown Point ???

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

Our sources for Crown Point (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 Crown Point other than they indicate that Crown Point would be found somewhere in Saline County, Kansas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1879 and closed in 1892.

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 Crown Point ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Crown Point.

Within Kansas, the name Crown Point is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alaska
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Crown Point.
- Arizona
  - Yavapai County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Crown Point [Yavapai County].
- California
  - San Diego 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 California community of Crown Point [San Diego County].
- Florida
  - Orange County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Crown Point [Orange County].
- Georgia
  - Hall County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Crown Point [Hall County].
- Indiana
  - Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Crown Point [Lake County].
- Louisiana
  - Calcasieu Parish
  - 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 Louisiana community of Crown Point [Calcasieu Parish].
  - Jefferson Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Crown Point [Jefferson Parish].
- Nebraska
  - Douglas 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 Nebraska community of Crown Point [Douglas County].
- Nevada
  - Storey County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Crown Point [Storey County].
- New York
  - Essex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Crown Point [Essex County].
- Ohio
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Crown Point [Montgomery County].
- Oregon
  - Coos County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Crown Point [Coos County].
- Vermont
  - Addison 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 Vermont community of Crown Point [Addison County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Crown Point ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Crown Point:

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 Crown Point - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in Saline 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 Saline 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 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 Crown Point 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/