Do you know of New Shawneetown ???

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

Our source wasn't clear whether New Shawneetown was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that New Shawneetown would be found somewhere in Gallatin County, Illinois.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for New Shawneetown ...

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

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Appalachia & Piedmont
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for New Shawneetown.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 17/52831 (Place Name: New Shawneetown (RR name for Shawneetown))

County: Gallatin (FIPS State/County: 17/059)

Class: X3

More Orphans in Gallatin 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 Gallatin County.

Bartley
	Junction City
Chrismansville
Crawford	Overton
Cypress Junction
Cypressville	Rankston

Doherty	Saline Mines
Duncan	South Hampton

Eagle Creek	Tromly

Gwaltney	Wells

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.