Do you know of South Pass ???

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

Our sources for South Pass (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 South Pass other than they indicate that South Pass would be found somewhere in Union County, Illinois.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1858 and closed  in 1873.

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 South Pass ...

We found one communities that share the name South Pass.

Within Illinois, the name South Pass is unique.

Beyond Illinois, there is another community also named South Pass in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Louisiana
    • Plaquemines Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of South Pass [Plaquemines Parish].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for South Pass ...

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)

More Orphans in  Union County ...

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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 Union County.