Do you know of Blissville ???

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

We found mention of Blissville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Jefferson 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.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1841 and closed  in 1858.

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 Blissville ...

We found five communities that share the name Blissville.

Within Illinois, the name Blissville is unique.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, four are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Connecticut
    • New London County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Blissville [New London County].
  • Massachusetts
    • Franklin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Blissville [Franklin County].
  • New Brunswick
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Blissville.
  • New York
    • Queens County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Blissville [Queens County].
  • Vermont
    • Rutland County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Blissville [Rutland County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Blissville ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in  Jefferson 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 Jefferson County.