Do you know of Ivanhoe ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ivanhoe. 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 Ivanhoe.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Ivanhoe, so we are uncertain whether Ivanhoe is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Ivanhoe would be found somewhere in Cook County, Illinois.
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 Ivanhoe ...
We found 29 communities that share the name Ivanhoe.
There are two communities within Illinois that are also named Ivanhoe.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 27 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- California
- Tulare County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Ivanhoe [Tulare County].
- Colorado
- Florida
- Georgia
- Bulloch County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ivanhoe [Bulloch County].
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Saint Mary Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Ivanhoe [Saint Mary Parish].
- Michigan
- Huron County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Ivanhoe [Huron County].
- Minnesota
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Ivanhoe [Lincoln County].
- Nevada
- Elko County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Ivanhoe [Elko County].
- New Mexico
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Ivanhoe [Grant County].
- New York
- Delaware County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Ivanhoe [Delaware County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Ivanhoe.
- North Carolina
- Sampson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ivanhoe [Sampson County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Ivanhoe.
- Pennsylvania
- South Dakota
- Custer County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Ivanhoe [Custer County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Wythe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ivanhoe [Wythe County].
- West Virginia
More Orphans in Cook 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 Cook County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Ivanhoe 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. |