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Do you know of Dafer ???

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

Our sources for Dafer (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 Dafer other than they indicate that Dafer would be found somewhere in Leavenworth County, Kansas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1884 and closed  in 1900.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dafer ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Dafer - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Leavenworth County ...

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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 Leavenworth County.

AckerlandMiocene
AlexandriaMoore's Summit
AlfaMoore's
 Moravian Mission
BastionMount Aurora
BellMount Olive
BolingMount Olivet
Bonner 
BriggsvaleNeeley
 Newcastle
CenterNuato
Centerville 
CincinnatiOgdenburg
ClarksvilleOle
Clementville 
 Penitentiary Station
DaisyPensenaus Landing
Dawson's FordPensineau
Delaware CrossingPetersburg
DrydalePilot Knob
 Pleasant Lodge
East LeavenworthPleasant Ridge
EdministerPope
Eight Mile HouseProgress
Evanston 
 Rapps Mills
FairholmeRenco
FallRively's Trading Post
Fort LeavenworthRiverside
 Ross
Greenbush 
 Salem
Half Way HouseSalt Creek
HardvilleSarcoxie
HarkinessSeuferts
HastingsvilleSherman
Hawk HollowSomerville
High PrairieSouth Leavenworth
Honey ValleySpring Valley
Hund's StationStandish
 Stanley's
JaggardStanwood
JaySteuben
JunctionStranger Valley
 Stranger Village
Kanzas Jesuit MissionSummerville
Kickapoo Methodist MissionSummit
  
LattavilleUniontown
LebretonUsher
  
MarburgWade
MariaWeimar
MartensburgWilson's Trading Post
MartinsburgWimir
Mason FordWymer
Merritt 

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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