Do you know of Deerfield Prairie ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Deerfield Prairie. 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 Deerfield Prairie.<1> Our sources for Deerfield Prairie (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 Deerfield Prairie other than they indicate that Deerfield Prairie would be found somewhere in DeKalb County, Illinois. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1857 and closed in 1887. Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Deerfield Prairie ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Deerfield Prairie: 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)
Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher) 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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