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Do you know of South Farmington ???

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

Our sources for South Farmington (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 South Farmington other than they indicate that South Farmington would be found somewhere in Polk County, Wisconsin.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1874 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 South Farmington ...

We found two communities that share the name South Farmington.

Within Wisconsin, the name South Farmington is unique.

Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these two communities, one is located in the United States and the other in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Hillsborough County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of South Farmington [Hillsborough County].
    • Nova Scotia
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of South Farmington.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for South Farmington ...

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

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 South Farmington - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Polk 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 Polk County.

AlabamaIlo
Alden 
AllettaLoraine
Avondale 
 North Valley
Black Brook 
 Osceola Mills
East Lincoln 
El SalemPatterson
 Pineville
Farmington Centre 
 Saint Croix Junction
Gregory 
 Wagon Landing

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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