Do you know of Saint Albans ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Saint Albans. 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 Saint Albans.
Our sources for Saint Albans (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 Saint Albans other than they indicate that Saint Albans would be found somewhere in Hancock County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1839 and closed in 1871.
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 Saint Albans ...
We found twelve communities that share the name Saint Albans.
Within Illinois, the name Saint Albans is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, ten are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Maine
- Somerset County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Saint Albans [Somerset County].
- Minnesota
- Hennepin 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 Minnesota community of Saint Albans [Hennepin County].
- Missouri
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Saint Albans [Franklin County].
- Saint Louis 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 Missouri community of Saint Albans [Saint Louis County].
- New York
- Queens County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Saint Albans [Queens County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Saint Albans.
- Ontario
- 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 Ontario community of Saint Albans.
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Saint Albans [Delaware County].
- South Carolina
- Greenville 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 Saint Albans [Greenville County].
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Saint Albans [Salt Lake County].
- Vermont
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Saint Albans [Franklin County].
- West Virginia
- Kanawha County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Saint Albans [Kanawha County].
- Maine
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Saint Albans ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Saint Albans:
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
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)
More Orphans in Hancock 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 Hancock County.
| Appanoose | Macedonia |
| Mallard | |
| Chilli | McGary |
| Milliken | |
| East Fort Madison | Montebello |
| East Keokuk | |
| Edmunds | Pilot Grove |
| Elm Tree | |
| Rough And Ready | |
| Hickory Ridge | |
| Star |
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Saint Albans 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/ |