Do you know of Phoenix ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Phoenix. 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 Phoenix.
We found mention of Phoenix as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Douglas 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 1870 and closed in 1890.
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 Phoenix ...
We found 22 communities that share the name Phoenix.
There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Phoenix.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 21 communities, 21 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Cook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Phoenix [Cook County].
- Cook County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Maricopa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Phoenix [Maricopa County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Phoenix.
- Colorado
- Gilpin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Phoenix [Gilpin County].
- Georgia
- Putnam County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Phoenix [Putnam County].
- Louisiana
- Plaquemines Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Phoenix [Plaquemines Parish].
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Keweenaw County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Phoenix [Keweenaw County].
- Mississippi
- Nebraska
- Holt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Phoenix [Holt County].
- New Jersey
- Middlesex County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Phoenix [Middlesex County].
- New York
- Oswego County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Phoenix [Oswego County].
- North Carolina
- Brunswick County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Phoenix [Brunswick County].
- Ohio
- Ashtabula County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Phoenix [Ashtabula County].
- Ottawa County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Phoenix [Ottawa County].
- Oregon
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Phoenix [Jackson County].
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Abbeville County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Phoenix [Abbeville County].
- Greenwood County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Phoenix [Greenwood County].
- Texas
- Bexar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Phoenix [Bexar County].
- Arizona
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Phoenix ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Phoenix:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Douglas 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 Douglas County.
| Bono | Howe |
| Brushy Fork | |
| Leasure | |
| Dora | |
| Villa Grove Junction |
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Phoenix 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/ |