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Do you know of Marengo ???

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

We found mention of Marengo as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Sumner 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 1878 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 Marengo ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Marengo.

Within Kansas, the name Marengo is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Marengo County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Marengo [Marengo County].
    • California
      • Los Angeles 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 California community of Marengo [Los Angeles County].
    • Illinois
      • McHenry County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Marengo [McHenry County].
    • Indiana
      • Crawford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Marengo [Crawford County].
    • Iowa
      • Iowa County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Marengo [Iowa County].
    • Michigan
      • Calhoun County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Marengo [Calhoun County].
    • Nebraska
      • Hayes County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Marengo [Hayes County].
    • New York
      • Wayne County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Marengo [Wayne County].
    • Ohio
      • Lucas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Marengo [Lucas County].
      • Morrow County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Marengo [Morrow County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Centre County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Marengo [Centre County].
    • Saskatchewan
      • Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Marengo.
    • Tennessee
      • Hawkins 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 Tennessee community of Marengo [Hawkins County].
    • Virginia
      • Mecklenburg County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Marengo [Mecklenburg County].
    • Washington
      • Adams County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Marengo [Adams County].
      • Columbia County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Marengo [Columbia County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Ashland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Marengo [Ashland County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Marengo ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Sumner 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 Sumner County.

AbrellvilleKnox
Afton 
AltonLittleton
ArcolaLondon
ArgyleLone Star
Austin 
AvonMallory
 Mannings Point
BarnardMay Day
BelboneMissouri Flat
BeverlyMonroe
Big Cottonwood CrossingMount Chetopa
Blackstone 
BlandfordNapamalla
Bluff CityNew Bedford
BoonNew Ninnescah
Bowling GreenNinnescah
 Northfield
Carl City 
CentennialOccident
ChickaskiaOrchard Grove
CisneOrie
Clear Dale 
ConcordPalestine
 Pontoon
Doster StationPurcell
Dublin 
 Ray
EminenceRoy
  
FallsSalt City
 Sing Sing
GlascowSlate Creek Ranch
Glen ValleySpring City
Gueda SpringsSpring Dell
GuelphSunny Slope
 Sunset
Hamden 
Hearst CrossingUnion City
Hessville 
Hunnewell JunctionWellington Junction
 Woodlawn
Kitley 

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Marengo 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/









 

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