Do you know of Plum River ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Plum River. 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 Plum River.<1>
Our sources for Plum River (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 Plum River other than they indicate that Plum River would be found somewhere in Jo Daviess County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1849 and closed in 1905.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Plum River ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Plum River:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Plum River - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Prairies East & Ozarks
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Plum River.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 17/60820 (Place Name: Plum River)
County: Jo Daviess (FIPS State/County: 17/085)
Class: X3
More Orphans in Jo Daviess 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 Jo Daviess County.
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> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |