Do you know of Blanchard ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Blanchard. 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 Blanchard.<1>
We found mention of Blanchard as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Pope County, Illinois.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1893 and closed in 1922.
Communities Also Named Blanchard ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Blanchard.
Within Illinois, the name Blanchard is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, nineteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Sevier County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Blanchard [Sevier County].
- California
- Mariposa County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Blanchard [Mariposa County].
- Delaware
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Blanchard [Sussex County].
- Idaho
- Bonner County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Blanchard [Bonner County].
- Iowa
- Page County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Blanchard [Page County].
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Caddo Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Blanchard [Caddo Parish].
- Maine
- Piscataquis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Blanchard [Piscataquis County].
- Michigan
- Isabella County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Blanchard [Isabella County].
- New Mexico
- San Miguel County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Blanchard [San Miguel County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Blanchard.
- North Dakota
- Traill County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Blanchard [Traill County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Grady County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Blanchard [Grady County].
- Pennsylvania
- Texas
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Blanchard [Polk County].
- Utah
- Weber County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Blanchard [Weber County].
- Washington
- Skagit County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Blanchard [Skagit County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Blanchard ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Blanchard:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
More Orphans in Pope 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 Pope County.
| Azotus | |
| Paco | |
| Bay | Poco |
| Bayfield | |
| Book | Rock Quarry |
| Broad Oaks | |
| Shandsville | |
| Colorado | Shaudsville |
| New Brownfield | Wallersburg |
| Walnut Shade | |
| Orville | Wool |
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> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Blanchard 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. |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |