Do you know of High Prairie ???

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

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

Communities Also Named High Prairie ...

We found five communities that share the name High Prairie.

Within Illinois, the name High Prairie is unique.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, four are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of High Prairie.
- Kansas
  - Atchison County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of High Prairie [Atchison County].
  - Leavenworth County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of High Prairie [Leavenworth County].
- Missouri
  - Webster County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of High Prairie [Webster County].
- Texas
  - Madison County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of High Prairie [Madison County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for High Prairie ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Saint Clair 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 Saint Clair County.

Alma
Atlee Ogles	Maplewood
	Monsanto
Bellevue Park	Morris Hills
Benevolent Heights	Mud Creek
Bluff View Park
Booster Station	New Pittsburgh
Branch
Bridge Junction	O'Fallon Depot
	O'Fallon Junction
Carrier	Oakland
Casseyville	Old Harmony
Centreville Station
Chateau Terrace	Parkfield Terrace
Chenot Place	Pittsburg
Church	Plaza
Cone	Pontiac Station
Coral Gable	Powder Creek
Country Club Place	Powder Mill Woods
Country Club Terrace	Prairie du Pont
Crest Haven	Prospect Park
Creswell
Crossroad Terrace	Raib's
Crown	Rankin
	Relay Station
Dutch Hill	Ridge Prairie Heights
Dyke	Ridge Prairie
	Risdon
Emerald Terrace	River Incline
Enterprise Mine	Rock Spring
	Round House
Fairview
Four Mile Crossing	Schuremann
	Scott Air Force Base
Grassland	Scott
Griswold Place	Scottdale
	Sellinger
Hannover	South Junction
Harmony	Stone Quarry
Heinrichville	Stookey Station
Henryville	Stookey
High Switch	Sugar Loaf Heights
Highwood Terrace	Sugar Loaf
Highwood	Summerson
Hollandia
Homestead	Tolson
	Twelve Mile Prairie
Illinoistown	Twilight Terrace

Jefferson	Valley Junction
Johnson's Mine	Villa Hills
	Viner
Knecht Mines
Kneipp	Walmar
	Ward's
Lake	West Belleville
Lakeland Hills	White Oak
Lansdowne	Willard
Lenz
Lovejoy	Yoch's
Lowland

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>

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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 High Prairie 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.