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Do you know of Saundersville ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Saundersville. 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 Saundersville.<1>

We found mention of Saundersville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Sangamon County, Illinois.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1893 and closed  in 1896.

Communities Also Named Saundersville ...

We found four communities that share the name Saundersville.

Within Illinois, the name Saundersville is unique.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Massachusetts
      • Worcester County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Saundersville [Worcester County].
    • Ohio
      • Lawrence County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Saundersville [Lawrence County].
    • Rhode Island
      • Providence County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Saundersville [Providence County].
    • Tennessee
      • Sumner County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Saundersville [Sumner County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Saundersville ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

More Orphans in  Sangamon 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 Sangamon County.

Beard's MineLaketown
BondLeda
BradfordLefton
BreckLick
  
Cabbage PatchMortarsville
Capitol 
CarterNestor
Chinkapin HillNew Harmony
Coal Shaft 
CoraProspect
Cross Plains 
 Ridgeley
Derry Farm 
 Sangamon Siding
FetzerSangamon
 Sanger
GattonShepherdville
German PrairieSpringfield Junction
 Starnes
Howlett 
 Tansey
Ice Track SpurTrutter
Iles Junction 
 Watson
JamestownWatts
JunodWheatfield
  

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>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.
<3>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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