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Do you know of Iles Junction ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Iles Junction. 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 Iles Junction.

Our sources for Iles Junction (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 Iles Junction other than they indicate that Iles Junction would be found somewhere in Sangamon County, Illinois.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1873 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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Iles Junction ...

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

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 Iles Junction - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Sangamon 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 Sangamon County.

Beard's Mine 
BondLaketown
BradfordLeda
BreckLefton
 Lick
Cabbage Patch 
CapitolNestor
CarterNew Harmony
Chinkapin Hill 
Coal ShaftProspect
Cora 
Cross PlainsRidgeley
  
Derry FarmSangamon Siding
 Sangamon
FetzerSanger
 Springfield Junction
GattonStarnes
German Prairie 
 Tansey
HowlettTrutter
  
Ice Track SpurWatson
 Wheatfield
Junod 

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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