Do you know of Courtland ???

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

Our sources for Courtland (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Courtland other than they indicate that Courtland would be found somewhere in DeKalb County, Illinois.

Communities Also Named Courtland ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Courtland.

Within Illinois, the name Courtland is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Courtland [Lawrence County].
- Arizona
  - Cochise County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Courtland [Cochise County].
- California
  - Sacramento County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Courtland [Sacramento County].
- Florida
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Courtland [Hillsborough County].
- Indiana
  - Jackson 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 Indiana community of Courtland [Jackson County].
- Kansas
  - Republic County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Courtland [Republic County].
- Minnesota
  - Nicollet County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Courtland [Nicollet County].
- Mississippi
  - Panola County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Courtland [Panola County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Courtland.
- Tennessee
  - Robertson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Courtland [Robertson County].
- Texas
  - Cass County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Courtland [Cass County].
- Virginia
  - Southampton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Courtland [Southampton County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Courtland ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Courtland - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Great Lakes West
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2005
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in DeKalb 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 DeKalb County.

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Courtland 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.