Do you know of Dennison ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Dennison. 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 Dennison.

We found mention of Dennison as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Williamson County, Illinois.

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.

Communities Also Named Dennison ...

We found nine communities that share the name Dennison.

There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Dennison.

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

Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Clark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Dennison [Clark County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
  - Coconino County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Dennison [Coconino County].
- Kansas
  - Franklin County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Dennison [Franklin County].
- Louisiana
  - Iberia Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Dennison [Iberia Parish].
- Michigan
  - Ottawa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Dennison [Ottawa County].
- Minnesota
  - Goodhue County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Dennison [Goodhue County].
- Montana
  - Lewis and Clark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Dennison [Lewis and Clark County].
- Nebraska
  - Boone County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Dennison [Boone County].
- Ohio
  - Tuscarawas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Dennison [Tuscarawas County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dennison ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Williamson County ...

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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 Williamson County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Dennison 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.