Do you know of Findlay ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1891 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 Findlay ...

We found five communities that share the name Findlay.

Within Kansas, the name Findlay is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Georgia
    • Dooly County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Findlay [Dooly County].
  • Illinois
    • Shelby County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Findlay [Shelby County].
  • Manitoba
    • Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Findlay.
  • Ohio
    • Hancock County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Findlay [Hancock County].
  • Tennessee
    • White County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Findlay [White County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Findlay ...

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

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  Linn 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 Linn County.