Do you know of Bowling Green ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bowling Green. 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 Bowling Green.<1>
Our sources for Bowling Green (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 Bowling Green other than they indicate that Bowling Green would be found somewhere in Fayette County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1836 and closed in 1876.
Communities Also Named Bowling Green ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Bowling Green.
There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Bowling Green.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, twenty are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Woodford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Bowling Green [Woodford County].
- Woodford County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Sacramento County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Bowling Green [Sacramento County].
- Florida
- Hardee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Bowling Green [Hardee County].
- Georgia
- Oglethorpe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Bowling Green [Oglethorpe County].
- Indiana
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Bowling Green [Clay County].
- Kansas
- Franklin County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Bowling Green [Franklin County].
- Sumner County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Bowling Green [Sumner County].
- Kentucky
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Bowling Green [Warren County].
- Maryland
- Allegany County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Bowling Green [Allegany County].
- Mississippi
- Holmes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Bowling Green [Holmes County].
- Missouri
- Pike County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Bowling Green [Pike County].
- New York
- New York County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Bowling Green [New York County].
- Ohio
- Brown County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bowling Green [Brown County].
- Licking County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bowling Green [Licking County].
- Wood County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bowling Green [Wood County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Bowling Green.
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bowling Green [Delaware County].
- South Carolina
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Bowling Green [York County].
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Bowling Green [Salt Lake County].
- Virginia
- Caroline County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Bowling Green [Caroline County].
- Roanoke City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Bowling Green [Roanoke City].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bowling Green ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bowling Green:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
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
Rand McNally Map (1881)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Fayette 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 Fayette County.
| Alderson | Heilsburgh |
| Anvil | Hickory Creek |
| Higgins | |
| Bayle | Hissong |
| Bethard | |
| Louden City | |
| Clarkville | Lutz Spur |
| Cumberland | |
| Otego | |
| Elondale | |
| Shinkle | |
| Four Mile Prairie | |
| Woodyard | |
| Hagerstown |
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> | 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 Bowling Green 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. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |