Do you know of Florence Station ???

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

Our sources for Florence Station (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 Florence Station other than they indicate that Florence Station would be found somewhere in Stephenson County, Illinois.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1862 and closed in 1936.

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 Florence Station ...

We found five communities that share the name Florence Station.

Within Illinois, the name Florence Station is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
  - Pinal County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Florence Station [Pinal County].
- Kentucky
  - McCracken 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 Kentucky community of Florence Station [McCracken County].
- New Jersey
  - Burlington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Florence Station [Burlington County].
- Ohio
  - Erie 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 Ohio community of Florence Station [Erie County].
- Tennessee
  - Rutherford 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 Tennessee community of Florence Station [Rutherford County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Florence Station ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Florence Station - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

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

Rand McNally Map (1881)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Florence Station.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 17/26532 (Place Name: Florence Station)

County: Stephenson (FIPS State/County: 17/177)

Class: X3

More Orphans in Stephenson 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 Stephenson County.

Buckeye	Howardsville

Cockrell	Legal

Dunbar	Nevada
Duncanon
	Rock Run
East Junction
Everts	Silver Creek
	Stevens
Fountain Creek
	Wadham

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Florence Station 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/