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Do you know of Long John ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Long John. 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 Long John.<1>

We found mention of Long John as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Will 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.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1848 and closed in 1859.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Long John ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

More Orphans in  Will 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 Will County.

Arbor TrailsLillecash
  
Bird's BridgeMonterey Village
Boling GreenMullins
Bonnie Brea 
Bridge JunctionPattersons
Brookforest NorthPeerless
BrunningPheasant Ridge
Burr OaksPine Meadow
 Pinecrest
ChelseaPlaines
The ClustersPort Ridge
Coal MinesPrairie Creek
College ViewPrestwick
Collins 
 Robin Hill
Dellwood HighlandsRooney Heights
Dupage 
 Selfridgeville
East WheatlandSollitt
EndorSteele Station
 Sunny Land
Fiday ViewSunrise Ridge
Frankfort StationSwiss Valley
Franklin Square 
Fry's Wheatland ViewTamtrack
 Timberline
Gravel BankTokio
Green GardenTwin Oaks
Greenbriar 
GrintonVermont Settlement
  
HamptonWashington Center
Horse CreekWestfield
 Wood Hill
International Village 
 Young Hickory
Jackson Creek 
 Zarley's
Lewood 

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.
<3>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/
<4>For information about how community names have been affected by the Board of Geographic Names (BGN), see our page about Placename Rules.