Do you know of Southampton ???

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

Our sources for Southampton (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 Southampton other than they indicate that Southampton would be found somewhere in Peoria County, Illinois.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1847 and closed in 1887.

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 Southampton ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Southampton.

Within Illinois, the name Southampton is unique.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and four are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Maryland
  - Harford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Southampton [Harford County].
  - Saint Mary's County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Southampton [Saint Mary's County].
- Massachusetts
  - Hampshire County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Southampton [Hampshire County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Southampton.
- New Jersey
  - Burlington 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 New Jersey community of Southampton [Burlington County].
- New York
  - Suffolk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Southampton [Suffolk County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Southampton.
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Southampton.
- Pennsylvania
  - Bucks County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Southampton [Bucks County].
  - Franklin 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 Pennsylvania community of Southampton [Franklin County].
  - Somerset 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 Pennsylvania community of Southampton [Somerset County].
- Prince Edward Island
  - Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Southampton.
- Utah
  - Salt Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Southampton [Salt Lake County].
- Virginia
  - Hampton City
  - 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 Virginia community of Southampton [Hampton City].
  - Portsmouth City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Southampton [Portsmouth City].
  - Richmond City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Southampton [Richmond City].
  - Roanoke County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Southampton [Roanoke County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Southampton ...

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

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)

More Orphans in Peoria 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 Peoria County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Southampton 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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