Do you know of Union Center ???

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

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

We found thirteen communities that share the name Union Center.

There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Union Center.

Beyond Kansas, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Elk 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 Union Center [Elk County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
  - Cumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Union Center [Cumberland County].
- Indiana
  - LaPorte County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Union Center [LaPorte County].
- Iowa
  - Plymouth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Union Center [Plymouth County].
- Nebraska
  - Gage County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Union Center [Gage County].
- New Jersey
  - Union 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 Jersey community of Union Center [Union County].
- New York
  - Broome County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Union Center [Broome County].
  - Ulster County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Union Center [Ulster County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Tioga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Union Center [Tioga County].
- South Dakota
  - Meade County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Union Center [Meade County].
- Texas
  - Eastland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Union Center [Eastland County].
- Washington
  - Whitman County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Union Center [Whitman County].
- Wisconsin
  - Juneau County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Union Center [Juneau County].

More Orphans in Wilson 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 Wilson 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Union Center 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.