Do you know of Sanborn ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Sanborn. 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 Sanborn.
Our sources for Sanborn (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 Sanborn other than they indicate that Sanborn would be found somewhere in Johnson County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1869 and closed in 1917.
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 Sanborn ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Sanborn.
Within Illinois, the name Sanborn is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, seventeen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Kern County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Sanborn [Kern County].
- Colorado
- Florida
- Wakulla County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Sanborn [Wakulla County].
- Georgia
- Iowa
- O'Brien County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Sanborn [O'Brien County].
- Kentucky
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Redwood County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Sanborn [Redwood County].
- Nebraska
- Dundy County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Sanborn [Dundy County].
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- Rockingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Sanborn [Rockingham County].
- New York
- Niagara County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Sanborn [Niagara County].
- North Dakota
- Barnes County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Sanborn [Barnes County].
- Pennsylvania
- Clearfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Sanborn [Clearfield County].
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Sanborn.
- Texas
- Wisconsin
- Ashland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Sanborn [Ashland County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sanborn ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Sanborn:
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
Rand McNally Map (1881)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Johnson 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 Johnson County.
| Boles | |
| Lincoln Green | |
| Cedar Bluffs | |
| Chasco | Rago |
| Collinsburg | Regent |
| Cypress Creek | |
| Vienna Junction | |
| Gannatown | |
| Grantsburgh Station | Whitehill |
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 Sanborn 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/ |