Do you know of Donegal ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1895 and closed  in 1906.

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 Donegal ...

We found five communities that share the name Donegal.

Within Kansas, the name Donegal is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Georgia
    • Bulloch County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Donegal [Bulloch County].
  • Mississippi
    • Wilkinson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Donegal [Wilkinson County].
  • New Brunswick
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Donegal.
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Donegal.
  • Pennsylvania
    • Westmoreland County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Donegal [Westmoreland County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Donegal ...

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

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

Rand McNally Map of Kansas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Dickinson 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 Dickinson County.