Do you know of Laing ???

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

We found mention of Laing as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Rawlins 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 1879 and closed  in 1881.

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 Laing ...

We found three communities that share the name Laing.

Within Kansas, the name Laing is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Michigan
    • Sanilac County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Laing [Sanilac County].
  • Washington
    • Grant County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Laing [Grant County].
  • West Virginia
    • Kanawha County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Laing [Kanawha County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Laing ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Rawlins 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 Rawlins County.