Do you know of Denton ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Denton. 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 Denton.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Denton, so we are uncertain whether Denton 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 Denton would be found somewhere in Ada County, Idaho.
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 Denton ...
We found 23 communities that share the name Denton.
There is one other community in Idaho which is also named Denton.
Beyond Idaho, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Idaho ...
- Bonner County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Denton [Bonner County].
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Colbert County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Denton [Colbert County].
- Arkansas
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Denton [Lawrence County].
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Denton [Scott County].
- Georgia
- Coffee County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Denton [Coffee County].
- Jeff Davis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Denton [Jeff Davis County].
- Kansas
- Doniphan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Denton [Doniphan County].
- Kentucky
- Carter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Denton [Carter County].
- Maryland
- Caroline County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Denton [Caroline County].
- Michigan
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Denton [Wayne County].
- Mississippi
- Quitman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Denton [Quitman County].
- Missouri
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Denton [Johnson County].
- Pemiscot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Denton [Pemiscot County].
- Montana
- Fergus County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Denton [Fergus County].
- Nebraska
- Lancaster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Denton [Lancaster County].
- New York
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Denton [Orange County].
- North Carolina
- Davidson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Denton [Davidson County].
- Oklahoma
- Stephens County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Denton [Stephens County].
- Pennsylvania
- Indiana County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Denton [Indiana County].
- Tennessee
- Cocke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Denton [Cocke County].
- Texas
- Callahan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Denton [Callahan County].
- Denton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Denton [Denton County].
- West Virginia
- Marion County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Denton [Marion County].
More Orphans in Ada 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 Ada 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Denton 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. |