Do you know of Big Prairie ???

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

Our sources for Big Prairie (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 Big Prairie other than they indicate that Big Prairie would be found somewhere in Wayne County, Ohio.

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 Big Prairie ...

We found three communities that share the name Big Prairie.

There are two communities within Ohio that are also named Big Prairie.

Beyond Ohio, there is another community also named Big Prairie in the United States.

• Communities Located In Ohio ...
  • Clinton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Big Prairie [Clinton County].
  • Holmes County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Big Prairie [Holmes County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Michigan
    • Newaygo County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Big Prairie [Newaygo County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Big Prairie ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Big Prairie - 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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in  Wayne 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 Wayne County.