Do you know of Winona ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Winona. 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 Winona.
We found mention of Winona as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Doniphan 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 1857 and closed in 1859.
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 Winona ...
We found 30 communities that share the name Winona.
There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Winona.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 29 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 29 communities, 29 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Winona [Logan County].
- Logan County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Coconino County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Winona [Coconino County].
- Arkansas
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Winona [Lee County].
- Colorado
- Idaho
- Idaho County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Winona [Idaho County].
- Indiana
- Starke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Winona [Starke County].
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Winn Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Winona [Winn Parish].
- Michigan
- Houghton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Winona [Houghton County].
- Minnesota
- Winona County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Winona [Winona County].
- Mississippi
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Winona [Montgomery County].
- Missouri
- Shannon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Winona [Shannon County].
- New Hampshire
- Belknap County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Winona [Belknap County].
- New York
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Winona [Jefferson County].
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Winona.
- Oregon
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Smith County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Winona [Smith County].
- Virginia
- Norfolk City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Winona [Norfolk City].
- Washington
- Whitman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Winona [Whitman County].
- West Virginia
- Arizona
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Winona ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Winona:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
More Orphans in Doniphan 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 Doniphan 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 Winona 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/ |