Do you know of Vinton ???

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

We found mention of Vinton as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Riley County, Kansas.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1870 and closed  in 1888.

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 Vinton ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Vinton.

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

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

• Communities Located In Kansas ...
  • Cowley County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Vinton [Cowley County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • California
    • Plumas County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Vinton [Plumas County].
  • Iowa
    • Benton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Vinton [Benton County].
  • Louisiana
    • Calcasieu Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Vinton [Calcasieu Parish].
  • Mississippi
    • Clay County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Vinton [Clay County].
  • Missouri
    • Bates County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Vinton [Bates County].
  • Nebraska
    • Valley County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Vinton [Valley County].
  • Ohio
    • Gallia County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Vinton [Gallia County].
    • Vinton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Vinton [Vinton County].
  • Quebec
    • Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Vinton.
  • Texas
    • El Paso County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Vinton [El Paso County].
  • Virginia
    • Roanoke County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Vinton [Roanoke County].
  • West Virginia
    • Nicholas County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Vinton [Nicholas County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Vinton ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Riley County ...

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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 Riley County.