Do you know of Grand Haven ???

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

Our sources for Grand Haven (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 Grand Haven other than they indicate that Grand Haven would be found somewhere in Shawnee County, Kansas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1875 and closed  in 1901.

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 Grand Haven ...

We found three communities that share the name Grand Haven.

Within Kansas, the name Grand Haven is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • British Columbia
    • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Grand Haven.
  • Illinois
    • Will County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Grand Haven [Will County].
  • Michigan
    • Ottawa County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Grand Haven [Ottawa County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Grand Haven ...

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

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 Grand Haven - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Shawnee 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 Shawnee County.