Do you know of Scranton ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Scranton. 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 Scranton.
Our sources for Scranton (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 Scranton other than they indicate that Scranton would be found somewhere in Arapahoe County, Colorado.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1887 and closed in 1888.
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 Scranton ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Scranton.
Within Colorado, the name Scranton is unique.
Beyond Colorado, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Geneva County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Scranton [Geneva County].
- Arkansas
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Scranton [Logan County].
- California
- Inyo County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Scranton [Inyo County].
- Iowa
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Scranton [Greene County].
- Kansas
- Osage County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Scranton [Osage County].
- Kentucky
- Menifee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Scranton [Menifee County].
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Saint Louis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Scranton [Saint Louis County].
- Mississippi
- New York
- Erie County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Scranton [Erie County].
- North Carolina
- Hyde County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Scranton [Hyde County].
- North Dakota
- Bowman County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Scranton [Bowman County].
- Pennsylvania
- Lackawanna County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Scranton [Lackawanna County].
- South Carolina
- Florence County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Scranton [Florence County].
- South Dakota
- Texas
- Eastland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Scranton [Eastland County].
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Scranton [Salt Lake County].
- Wisconsin
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Scranton ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Scranton:
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 Scranton - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned
More Orphans in Arapahoe 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 Arapahoe 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 Scranton 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/ |