Do you know of Shands ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Shands, so we are uncertain whether Shands is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Shands would be found somewhere in Hernando County, Florida.

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 Shands ...

We found two communities that share the name Shands.

Within Florida, the name Shands is unique.

Beyond Florida, 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 ...
  • California
    • Nevada County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Shands [Nevada County].
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Shands.

More Orphans in  Hernando 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 Hernando County.