Do you know of Grand View ???

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

We found mention of Grand View as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Morris County, Kansas.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1876 and closed in 1886.

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 View ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Grand View.

There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Grand View.

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

Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Morton 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 Kansas community of Grand View [Morton County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
  - Yavapai County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Grand View [Yavapai County].
- Florida
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Grand View [Hillsborough County].
- Idaho
  - Owyhee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Grand View [Owyhee County].
- Indiana
  - Spencer 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 Indiana community of Grand View [Spencer County].
- Louisiana
  - Saint James Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Grand View [Saint James Parish].
- Maryland
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Grand View [Carroll County].
- Michigan
  - Cheboygan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Grand View [Cheboygan County].
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Grand View [Monroe County].
  - Oceana 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 Michigan community of Grand View [Oceana County].
- New York
  - Rockland 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 New York community of Grand View [Rockland County].
- Ohio
  - Butler County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Grand View [Butler County].
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Grand View [Washington County].
- Oregon
  - Umatilla 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 Oregon community of Grand View [Umatilla County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Beaver 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 Grand View [Beaver County].
  - Bedford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Grand View [Bedford County].
  - Jefferson County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Grand View [Jefferson County].
- Utah
  - Salt Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Grand View [Salt Lake County].
- Virginia
  - Hampton City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Grand View [Hampton City].
- Wisconsin
  - Bayfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Grand View [Bayfield County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Grand View ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

More Orphans in Morris 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 Morris County.

Footnotes ...

<1>

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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Grand View 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.

<2>

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

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