Do you know of Little Rock ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Little Rock. 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 Little Rock.
Our sources for Little Rock (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Little Rock other than they indicate that Little Rock would be found somewhere in Nobles County, Minnesota.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1874 and closed in 1903.
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 Little Rock ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Little Rock.
There are two communities within Minnesota that are also named Little Rock.
Beyond Minnesota, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Minnesota ...
- Beltrami County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Little Rock [Beltrami County].
- Morrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Little Rock [Morrison County].
- Beltrami County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Escambia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Little Rock [Escambia County].
- Arkansas
- Pulaski County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Little Rock [Pulaski County].
- Idaho
- Gem County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Little Rock [Gem County].
- Illinois
- Kendall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Little Rock [Kendall County].
- La Salle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Little Rock [La Salle County].
- Indiana
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Little Rock [Knox County].
- Iowa
- Lyon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Little Rock [Lyon County].
- Kentucky
- Bourbon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Little Rock [Bourbon County].
- Estill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Little Rock [Estill County].
- Louisiana
- Plaquemines Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Little Rock [Plaquemines Parish].
- Mississippi
- Newton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Little Rock [Newton County].
- Missouri
- Saline 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 Missouri community of Little Rock [Saline County].
- South Carolina
- Dillon County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Little Rock [Dillon County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Little Rock ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Little Rock:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Little Rock - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Nobles 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 Nobles County.
| Agate | Sioux Falls Junction |
| Graham Lake | |
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 Little Rock 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/ |