Do you know of Paines Point ???

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

Our sources for Paines Point (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 Paines Point other than they indicate that Paines Point would be found somewhere in Ogle 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 Paines Point ...

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

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

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

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Paines Point.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 17/57186   (Place Name: Paines Point)

County: Ogle     (FIPS State/County: 17/141)

Class: X3

More Orphans in  Ogle County ...

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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 Ogle County.