Do you know of Sears ???

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

Our sources for Sears (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 Sears other than they indicate that Sears would be found somewhere in Rock Island County, Illinois.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1877 and closed  in 1890.

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 Sears ...

We found five communities that share the name Sears.

Within Illinois, the name Sears is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Florida
    • Hendry County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Sears [Hendry County].
  • Kansas
    • Ford County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Sears [Ford County].
  • Michigan
    • Osceola County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Sears [Osceola County].
  • Montana
    • Richland County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Sears [Richland County].
  • Nebraska
    • Scotts Bluff County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Sears [Scotts Bluff County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sears ...

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

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

Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)

More Orphans in  Rock Island 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 Rock Island County.