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Do you know of Anthony ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Anthony. 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 Anthony. Our sources for Anthony (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 Anthony other than they indicate that Anthony would be found somewhere in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 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 Anthony ...We found sixteen communities that share the name Anthony. Within Wisconsin, the name Anthony is unique. Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Anthony ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Anthony: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Anthony - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned The FIPS database contains an entry for Anthony. Referenced FIPS Records ... FIPS Code: 55/02225 (Place Name: Anthony) County: Eau Claire (FIPS State/County: 55/035) Class: U8 Identifies a populated place (in this case, Anthony) 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 Eau Claire 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 Eau Claire County. Footnotes ...
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