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Do you know of Granite Bluff (aka 'Grand Bluff') ???

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

We found mention of Granite Bluff as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Phillips 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 1873 and closed  in 1880.

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 Granite Bluff ...

We found one communities that share the name Granite Bluff.

Within Kansas, the name Granite Bluff is unique.

Beyond Kansas, there is another community also named Granite Bluff in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Michigan
      • Dickinson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Granite Bluff [Dickinson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Granite Bluff ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Phillips 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 Phillips County.

AledoMound
 Mount Zion
BentonMyrtle
Big Bend 
BloomfieldNance
BontonNew Hope
Bow CreekNorman
  
CoyoteOsma
Crow 
 Pleasant Green
DeaversvillePlum Creek
DickeyvillePlumb Creek
 Pomeroy
EmvillePowell
  
FredericksburgSaraville
 Seaversville
GermantownSedan
GoodeSilica
 Spring Valley
HeislerStockade
  
Iowa UnionTruesdell
 Tuck
Jimtown 
 Upton
Kildare 
KydWagnerville
 West Cedar
LeeWest Union
LuctorWilton
 Witton
MattesonWorthen

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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