Do you know of Kendall ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Kendall. 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 Kendall.
Our sources for Kendall (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 Kendall other than they indicate that Kendall would be found somewhere in Kendall County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1848 and closed in 1905.
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 Kendall ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Kendall.
Within Illinois, the name Kendall is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Florida
- Miami-Dade County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Kendall [Miami-Dade County].
- Kansas
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Kendall [Hamilton County].
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Garrett County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Kendall [Garrett County].
- Michigan
- Van Buren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Kendall [Van Buren County].
- Missouri
- Montana
- Fergus County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Kendall [Fergus County].
- Nevada
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Kendall [Clark County].
- New York
- Orleans County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Kendall [Orleans County].
- Oregon
- Multnomah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Kendall [Multnomah County].
- Pennsylvania
- Beaver County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Kendall [Beaver County].
- McKean 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 Pennsylvania community of Kendall [McKean County].
- Vermont
- Washington
- Whatcom County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Kendall [Whatcom County].
- Wisconsin
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Kendall [Monroe County].
- Wyoming
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Kendall ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Kendall:
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 Kendall - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)
More Orphans in Kendall 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 Kendall 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 Kendall 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |