Do you know of Santa Fe ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Santa Fe. 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 Santa Fe.
Our sources for Santa Fe (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 Santa Fe other than they indicate that Santa Fe would be found somewhere in Alexander County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1838 and closed in 1906.
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 Santa Fe ...
We found thirteen communities that share the name Santa Fe.
Within Illinois, the name Santa Fe is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
- Denver 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 Colorado community of Santa Fe [Denver County].
- Pueblo County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Santa Fe [Pueblo County].
- Florida
- Alachua County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Santa Fe [Alachua County].
- Indiana
- Miami County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Santa Fe [Miami County].
- Kansas
- Finney 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 Kansas community of Santa Fe [Finney County].
- Haskell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Santa Fe [Haskell County].
- Kentucky
- Bracken County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Santa Fe [Bracken County].
- Missouri
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Santa Fe [Monroe County].
- New Mexico
- Santa Fe County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Santa Fe [Santa Fe County].
- Ohio
- Auglaize County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Santa Fe [Auglaize County].
- Oklahoma
- Stephens County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Santa Fe [Stephens County].
- Tennessee
- Maury County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Santa Fe [Maury County].
- Texas
- Galveston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Santa Fe [Galveston County].
- Colorado
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Santa Fe ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Santa Fe:
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 Santa Fe - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
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)
Rand McNally Map of Illinois (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Alexander 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 Alexander County.
| Beech Ridge | Idlewild |
| Clear Creek Landing | North Cairo |
| Commercial Point | |
| Thebes Junction | |
| Goose Island | |
| Gravel Pit | Warriners |
| Wheatland |
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 Santa Fe 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/ |