Do you know of South Bend ???

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

Our sources for South Bend (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 South Bend other than they indicate that South Bend would be found somewhere in Blue Earth County, Minnesota.

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 South Bend ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name South Bend.

Within Minnesota, the name South Bend is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of South Bend [Lincoln County].
  - Lonoke County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of South Bend [Lonoke County].
- Georgia
  - Clayton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of South Bend [Clayton County].
- Indiana
  - Saint Joseph County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of South Bend [Saint Joseph County].
- Kansas
  - Cowley 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 South Bend [Cowley County].
  - Morris County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of South Bend [Morris County].
- Louisiana
  - Saint Mary Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of South Bend [Saint Mary Parish].
- Nebraska
  - Cass County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of South Bend [Cass County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Armstrong County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of South Bend [Armstrong County].
- Texas
  - Harris County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of South Bend [Harris County].
  - Young County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of South Bend [Young County].
- Washington
  - Pacific County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of South Bend [Pacific County].
- Wyoming
  - Laramie 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 Wyoming community of South Bend [Laramie County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for South Bend ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for South Bend - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for South Bend.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 27/61222 (Place Name: South Bend)

County: Blue Earth (FIPS State/County: 27/013)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, South Bend) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Blue Earth 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 Blue Earth 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 South Bend 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.