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Do you know of Lafox ???

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

Our sources for Lafox (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Lafox other than they indicate that Lafox would be found somewhere in Kane 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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lafox ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Lafox - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

The FIPS database contains an entry for Lafox.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 17/40715   (Place Name: Lafox (RR name La Fox))

County: Kane     (FIPS State/County: 17/089)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Lafox) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Kane 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 Kane County.

AlexanderGreen Meadows
Algonquin ShoresGrouse
  
BabsonHampshire Manor
Batavia HighlandsHenpeck
Blackberry Heights 
Blackberry StationIvy Glen
Blackberry 
Briar HillLakewood Village
Burnham MillLenox
 Little Woods
Century Oaks WestLodi Station
Century Oaks 
Cherry HillsMcIntosh
College ParkMeadowdale
Country KnollsMoecherville
CountrysideMontague Forest
Cumberland Green 
 New Plato
Dundee 
Dunham WoodsParkwood
 Pinelands
Eagle HeightsPrestbury
East Aurora 
East BataviaSherwood on the Fox
East BurlingtonSilver Glen
East ElginSouth Aurora
East PlatoSunset
Elgin Junction 
 Watch Factory
Fox River JunctionWest Aurora
Fox River SwitchWest Elgin
 Westaway
Garden QuarterWildwood
Geneva SwitchWinden Oak
Glengarry 









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 10 Mar 2024