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Do you know of Bigneck ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bigneck. 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 Bigneck.<1>

Our sources for Bigneck (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Bigneck other than they indicate that Bigneck would be found somewhere in Adams County, Illinois.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bigneck ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Bigneck - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

The FIPS database contains an entry for Bigneck.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 17/05963   (Place Name: Bigneck)

County: Adams     (FIPS State/County: 17/001)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Bigneck) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Adams 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 Adams County.

AntoniusHaselwood
 Hazen
BarnardHouston
Bauman 
Bluff HallKeene
 Keokuk Junction
Cliola 
 Newtown
Ellington 
Elm GroveQuincy Southeast
Eubanks 
 Walnut Point
Fairweather 
 York Neck

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.









 

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