Do you know of Frogtown ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Frogtown. 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 Frogtown.
Our sources for Frogtown (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 Frogtown other than they indicate that Frogtown would be found somewhere in Clinton County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1877 and closed in 1901.
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 Frogtown ...
We found sixteen communities that share the name Frogtown.
There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Frogtown.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Frogtown [Washington County].
- Washington County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
- Oconee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Frogtown [Oconee County].
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Harford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Frogtown [Harford County].
- Mississippi
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Frogtown [Scott County].
- Missouri
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Frogtown [Washington County].
- Pennsylvania
- Armstrong County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Frogtown [Armstrong County].
- Clarion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Frogtown [Clarion County].
- Huntingdon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Frogtown [Huntingdon County].
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Frogtown [Washington County].
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Frogtown [York County].
- Virginia
- West Virginia
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Frogtown [Logan County].
- Georgia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Frogtown ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Frogtown:
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 Frogtown - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map (1881)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Clinton 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 Clinton County.
| Buxton | |
| Looking Glass | |
| Clement | Lost Creek |
| Damiansville Station | Miley |
| Finney Heights | Queen's Lake |
| Gum Spring | Shoal Creek Station |
| Shoal Creek | |
| Irishtown | Sparks |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |