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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Derry Farm, so we are uncertain whether Derry Farm is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Derry Farm would be found somewhere in Sangamon County, Illinois.

More Orphans in  Sangamon 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 Sangamon County.

Beard's MineLeda
BondLefton
BradfordLick
Breck 
 Mortarsville
Cabbage Patch 
CapitolNestor
CarterNew Harmony
Chinkapin Hill 
Coal ShaftProspect
Cora 
Cross PlainsRidgeley
  
FetzerSangamon Siding
 Sangamon
GattonSanger
German PrairieSaundersville
 Shepherdville
HowlettSpringfield Junction
 Starnes
Ice Track Spur 
Iles JunctionTansey
 Trutter
Jamestown 
JunodWatson
 Watts
LaketownWheatfield

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.