Do you know of Langdon ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Langdon. 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 Langdon.
We found mention of Langdon as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in DuPage County, Illinois.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1846 and closed in 1852.
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 Langdon ...
We found nineteen communities that share the name Langdon.
Within Illinois, the name Langdon is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, seventeen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Langdon [Cherokee County].
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Langdon.
- Georgia
- Meriwether County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Langdon [Meriwether County].
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Langdon [Clay County].
- Kansas
- Minnesota
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Langdon [Washington County].
- Missouri
- Atchison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Langdon [Atchison County].
- New Hampshire
- Sullivan County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Langdon [Sullivan County].
- New York
- Broome County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Langdon [Broome County].
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Cavalier County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Langdon [Cavalier County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Langdon.
- Oregon
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Langdon [Douglas County].
- Pennsylvania
- Erie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Langdon [Erie County].
- Luzerne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Langdon [Luzerne County].
- Lycoming County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Langdon [Lycoming County].
- Washington
- Walla Walla County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Langdon [Walla Walla County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Langdon ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Langdon:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in DuPage 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 DuPage 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 Langdon 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/ |