Do you know of Ceres ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ceres. 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 Ceres.<1>

We found mention of Ceres as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Greene 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 1902.

Communities Also Named Ceres ...

We found eight communities that share the name Ceres.

Within Illinois, the name Ceres is unique.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Stanislaus County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Ceres [Stanislaus County].
- Georgia
  - Crawford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ceres [Crawford County].
- Iowa
  - Clayton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Ceres [Clayton County].
- New York
  - Allegany County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Ceres [Allegany County].
- Oklahoma
  - Noble County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Ceres [Noble County].
- Virginia
  - Bland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ceres [Bland County].
- Washington
  - Lewis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Ceres [Lewis County].
- West Virginia
  - Mercer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Ceres [Mercer County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ceres ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

More Orphans in Greene 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 Greene County.

Baldwin	Lewisville
Bluff Dale
Breese	New Greenfield
Bridgewater	New Providence

Daum	Pioneer
Drake
	Riverdale
Felter	Road House Station

Happyville	Schutz Mills
Hodges
	Waller
Letcherville	Wrightsville

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/