Do you know of Girard ???

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

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

We found sixteen communities that share the name Girard.

There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Girard.

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

Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Crawford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Girard [Crawford County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Russell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Girard [Russell County].
- Arkansas
  - Scott County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Girard [Scott County].
- California
  - Kern County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Girard [Kern County].
- Georgia
  - Burke County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Girard [Burke County].
- Illinois
  - Macoupin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Girard [Macoupin County].
- Louisiana
  - Richland Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Girard [Richland Parish].
- Michigan
  - Branch County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Girard [Branch County].
- Minnesota
  - Polk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Girard [Polk County].
- Montana
  - Richland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Girard [Richland County].
- Nebraska
  - Box Butte County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Girard [Box Butte County].
- Ohio
  - Trumbull County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Girard [Trumbull County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Erie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Girard [Erie County].
  - York 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 Pennsylvania community of Girard [York County].
- Texas
  - Kent County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Girard [Kent County].
- West Virginia
  - Wayne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Girard [Wayne County].

More Orphans in Meade 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 Meade 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Girard 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.