Do you know of Bell Plain ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bell Plain. 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 Bell Plain.<1>
Our sources for Bell Plain (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 Bell Plain other than they indicate that Bell Plain would be found somewhere in Marshall County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1838 and closed in 1843.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bell Plain ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bell Plain:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)
More Orphans in Marshall 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 Marshall County.
| Belle Plain | Held |
| Campgrove | Lake Wildwood |
| Caton | Laprairie Center |
| Crow Meadows | |
| Wilburn |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |