Do you know of Canning ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Canning. 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 Canning.<1>
We found mention of Canning as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Kane 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 1846 and closed in 1848.
Communities Also Named Canning ...
We found four communities that share the name Canning.
Within Illinois, the name Canning is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, .
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Canning [Hillsborough County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Canning.
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Canning.
- South Dakota
- Hughes County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Canning [Hughes County].
- Florida
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Canning ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Canning:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Kane 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 Kane County.
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> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |