Do you know of Sonora ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Sonora, so we are uncertain whether Sonora is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Sonora would be found somewhere in Lyon County, Kansas.

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 Sonora ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Sonora.

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

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

Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Harper 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 Sonora [Harper County].
- Nemaha 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 Sonora [Nemaha County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
  - Maricopa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Sonora [Maricopa County].
  - Pinal County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Sonora [Pinal County].
- Arkansas
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Sonora [Washington County].
- California
  - Tuolumne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Sonora [Tuolumne County].
- Illinois
  - Hancock County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Sonora [Hancock County].
- Iowa
  - Poweshiek 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 Iowa community of Sonora [Poweshiek County].
- Kentucky
  - Hardin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Sonora [Hardin County].
- Mississippi
  - Chickasaw County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Sonora [Chickasaw County].
- Missouri
  - Atchison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Sonora [Atchison County].
- New York
  - Steuben County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Sonora [Steuben County].
- North Dakota
  - Richland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Sonora [Richland County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Sonora.
- Ohio
  - Muskingum County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Sonora [Muskingum County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Butler 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 Pennsylvania community of Sonora [Butler County].
- Texas
  - Sutton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Sonora [Sutton County].

More Orphans in Lyon 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 Lyon County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Sonora 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.