Do you know of Portage ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Portage. 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 Portage.
Our sources for Portage (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 Portage other than they indicate that Portage would be found somewhere in Rooks County, Kansas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1880 and closed in 1892.
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 Portage ...
We found 22 communities that share the name Portage.
Within Kansas, the name Portage is unique.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 22 communities, nineteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alaska
- Illinois
- Jo Daviess County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Portage [Jo Daviess County].
- Indiana
- Louisiana
- Saint Landry Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Portage [Saint Landry Parish].
- Maine
- Aroostook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Portage [Aroostook County].
- Michigan
- Delta 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 Portage [Delta County].
- Kalamazoo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Portage [Kalamazoo County].
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Montana
- Cascade County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Portage [Cascade County].
- New Brunswick
- New York
- Livingston 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 Portage [Livingston County].
- Wyoming 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 New York community of Portage [Wyoming County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Portage.
- Ohio
- Wood County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Portage [Wood County].
- Pennsylvania
- Cambria County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Portage [Cambria County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Portage.
- Utah
- Box Elder County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Portage [Box Elder County].
- Washington
- Wisconsin
- Columbia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Portage [Columbia County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Portage ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Portage:
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 Portage - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Rooks 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 Rooks 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 Portage 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/ |