Do you know of East Paw Paw ???

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

Our sources for East Paw Paw (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 East Paw Paw other than they indicate that East Paw Paw would be found somewhere in DeKalb County, Illinois.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1854 and closed  in 1898.

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.

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.

Communities Also Named East Paw Paw ...

We found one communities that share the name East Paw Paw.

There is one other community in Illinois which is also named East Paw Paw.

Beyond Illinois.

• Communities Located In Illinois ...
  • Lee County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of East Paw Paw [Lee County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for East Paw Paw ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)

Rand McNally Map of Illinois (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  DeKalb 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 DeKalb County.