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Do you know of Miley ???

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

Our sources for Miley (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 Miley other than they indicate that Miley would be found somewhere in Clinton County, Illinois.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 and closed  in 1906.

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 Miley ...

We found two communities that share the name Miley.

Within Illinois, the name Miley is unique.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Fresno County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Miley [Fresno County].
    • South Carolina
      • Hampton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Miley [Hampton County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Miley ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Miley - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Clinton 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 Clinton County.

BuxtonIrishtown
  
ClementLooking Glass
 Lost Creek
Damiansville Station 
 Queen's Lake
Finney Heights 
FrogtownShoal Creek Station
 Shoal Creek
Gum SpringSparks
  

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024