Do you know of Northfield ???

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

Our sources for Northfield (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 Northfield other than they indicate that Northfield would be found somewhere in Sherman County, Kansas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1886 and closed in 1909.

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 Northfield ...

We found 30 communities that share the name Northfield.

There are two communities within Kansas that are also named Northfield.

Beyond Kansas, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 28 communities, 26 are located in the United States and eight are in Canada.

Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Cheyenne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Northfield [Cheyenne County].
- Sumner 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 Northfield [Sumner County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Northfield.
- Connecticut
  - Fairfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Northfield [Fairfield County].
  - Litchfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Northfield [Litchfield County].
- Illinois
  - Cook County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Northfield [Cook County].
  - Will County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Northfield [Will County].
- Indiana
  - Boone County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Northfield [Boone County].
- Iowa
  - Des Moines County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Northfield [Des Moines County].
- Kentucky
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Northfield [Jefferson County].
  - Pulaski County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Northfield [Pulaski County].
- Maine
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Northfield [Washington County].
- Massachusetts
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Northfield [Franklin County].
- Michigan
  - Monroe 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 Northfield [Monroe County].
  - Washtenaw County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Northfield [Washtenaw County].
- Minnesota
  - Rice County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Northfield [Rice County].
- New Hampshire
  - Merrimack County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Northfield [Merrimack County].
- New Jersey
  - Atlantic County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Northfield [Atlantic County].
  - Essex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Northfield [Essex County].
- New York
  - Delaware County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Northfield [Delaware County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Northfield.
- Ohio
  - Summit County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Northfield [Summit County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Northfield.
- Quebec
  - Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Northfield.
- Texas
  - Harris County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Northfield [Harris County].
  - Motley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Northfield [Motley County].
- Vermont
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Northfield [Washington County].
- Virginia
  - Henrico County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Northfield [Henrico County].
  - Roanoke City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Northfield [Roanoke City].
- Wisconsin
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Northfield [Jackson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Northfield ...

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

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Northfield - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Rand McNally Map of Kansas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Sherman 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 Sherman 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 Northfield 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/