Do you know of Prairie Bird ???

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

Our sources for Prairie Bird (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 Prairie Bird other than they indicate that Prairie Bird would be found somewhere in Shelby County, Illinois.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1850 and closed  in 1862.

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 Prairie Bird ...

We found one communities that share the name Prairie Bird.

Within Illinois, the name Prairie Bird is unique.

Beyond Illinois, there is another community also named Prairie Bird in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Missouri
    • Adair County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Prairie Bird [Adair County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Prairie Bird ...

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

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

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

Rand McNally Map (1881)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Shelby 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 Shelby County.