Do you know of Orange ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Orange. 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 Orange.
Our sources for Orange (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 Orange other than they indicate that Orange would be found somewhere in Burnett County, Wisconsin.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1887 and closed in 1920.
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 Orange ...
We found 29 communities that share the name Orange.
Within Wisconsin, the name Orange is unique.
Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another 29 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Orange [Franklin County].
- California
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Orange [Orange County].
- Connecticut
- New Haven County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Orange [New Haven County].
- Florida
- Liberty County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Orange [Liberty County].
- Georgia
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Orange [Cherokee County].
- Illinois
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Orange [Clark County].
- Indiana
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Orange [Fayette County].
- Iowa
- Black Hawk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Orange [Black Hawk County].
- Kansas
- Massachusetts
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Orange [Franklin County].
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Orange [Lawrence County].
- New Hampshire
- Grafton County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Orange [Grafton County].
- New Jersey
- Essex County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Orange [Essex County].
- New Mexico
- North Carolina
- Sampson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Orange [Sampson County].
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Luzerne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Orange [Luzerne County].
- Texas
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Orange [Orange County].
- Vermont
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Orange [Orange County].
- Virginia
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Orange [Orange County].
- West Virginia
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Orange ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Orange:
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 Orange - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Burnett 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 Burnett County.
| Alstad | |
| Anderson | Gaslyn |
| Blanding | Karlsborg |
| Brackett | Kruger |
| Donersville | Leef |
| Ekdall | Perida |
| Elkdale | |
| Saint Croix River | |
| Ferron Park | |
| Freya | Wood Lake |
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Orange 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/ |