Do you know of Surprise ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Surprise, so we are uncertain whether Surprise 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 Surprise would be found somewhere in Hamilton 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 Surprise ...

We found ten communities that share the name Surprise.

There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Surprise.

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

Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Grant 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 Surprise [Grant County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
  - Maricopa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Surprise [Maricopa County].
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Surprise.
- California
  - Modoc 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 Surprise [Modoc County].
- Indiana
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Surprise [Jackson County].
- Nebraska
  - Butler County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Surprise [Butler County].
- New York
  - Greene County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Surprise [Greene County].
- Ohio
  - Morrow County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Surprise [Morrow County].
- Tennessee
  - Meigs County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Surprise [Meigs County].
- Virginia
  - Culpeper County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Surprise [Culpeper County].

More Orphans in Hamilton 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 Hamilton 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 Surprise 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.