Do you know of Dorchester ???

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

Our sources for Dorchester (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 Dorchester other than they indicate that Dorchester would be found somewhere in Greene County, Missouri.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1881 and closed  in 1904.

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 Dorchester ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Dorchester.

Within Missouri, the name Dorchester is unique.

Beyond Missouri, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, eighteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Colorado
    • Gunnison County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Dorchester [Gunnison County].
  • Florida
    • Hillsborough County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Dorchester [Hillsborough County].
  • Georgia
    • Liberty County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Dorchester [Liberty County].
    • Richmond County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Dorchester [Richmond County].
  • Illinois
    • Macoupin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Dorchester [Macoupin County].
  • Iowa
    • Allamakee County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Dorchester [Allamakee County].
  • Maryland
    • Charles County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Dorchester [Charles County].
  • Massachusetts
    • Suffolk County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Dorchester [Suffolk County].
  • Nebraska
    • Saline County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Dorchester [Saline County].
  • New Brunswick
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Dorchester.
  • New Hampshire
    • Grafton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Dorchester [Grafton County].
  • New Jersey
    • Cumberland County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Dorchester [Cumberland County].
  • North Carolina
    • Forsyth County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Dorchester [Forsyth County].
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Dorchester.
  • South Carolina
    • Charleston County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Dorchester [Charleston County].
    • Dorchester County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Dorchester [Dorchester County].
  • Texas
    • Grayson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Dorchester [Grayson County].
  • Virginia
    • Richmond City
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Dorchester [Richmond City].
    • Wise County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Dorchester [Wise County].
  • Wisconsin
    • Clark County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Dorchester [Clark County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dorchester ...

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

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

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

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

Map from 1904 (unknown title/publisher)

Rand McNally Map of Missouri (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Greene 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 Greene County.