Do you know of Shawnee ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Shawnee. 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 Shawnee.
Our sources for Shawnee (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 Shawnee other than they indicate that Shawnee would be found somewhere in Monroe County, Pennsylvania.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1843 and closed in 1909.
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 Shawnee ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Shawnee.
There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named Shawnee.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Mifflin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Shawnee [Mifflin County].
- Mifflin County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Wilcox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Shawnee [Wilcox County].
- Arkansas
- Mississippi County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Shawnee [Mississippi County].
- Colorado
- Park County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Shawnee [Park County].
- Delaware
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Shawnee [Sussex County].
- Florida
- Glades County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Shawnee [Glades County].
- Georgia
- Effingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Shawnee [Effingham County].
- Kansas
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Shawnee [Johnson County].
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Harford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Shawnee [Harford County].
- Mississippi
- New York
- Niagara County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Shawnee [Niagara County].
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Grand Forks County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Shawnee [Grand Forks County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pottawatomie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Shawnee [Pottawatomie County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wyoming
- Converse County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Shawnee [Converse County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Shawnee ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Shawnee:
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 Shawnee - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
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
The FIPS database contains an entry for Shawnee.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 42/69882 (Place Name: Shawnee)
County: Monroe (FIPS State/County: 42/089)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Shawnee) 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 Monroe 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 Monroe 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 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 Shawnee 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/ |