Do you know of Cass ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cass. 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 Cass.
Our sources for Cass (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 Cass other than they indicate that Cass would be found somewhere in DuPage County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1834 and closed in 1885.
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 Cass ...
We found ten communities that share the name Cass.
There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Cass.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Cass County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Cass [Cass County].
- Cass County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Cass [Franklin County].
- Georgia
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Jones County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Cass [Jones County].
- New York
- Ohio
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Cass [Hancock County].
- Texas
- Cass County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Cass [Cass County].
- West Virginia
- Pocahontas County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Cass [Pocahontas County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cass ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Cass:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
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
Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)
More Orphans in DuPage 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 DuPage County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Cass 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |