Do you know of Tucker ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Tucker. 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 Tucker.
Our sources for Tucker (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 Tucker other than they indicate that Tucker would be found somewhere in Kankakee County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1875 and closed in 1909.
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 Tucker ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Tucker.
There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Tucker.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, twenty are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arizona
- Gila County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Tucker [Gila County].
- Arkansas
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Tucker [Jefferson County].
- Georgia
- DeKalb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Tucker [DeKalb County].
- Kentucky
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Tucker.
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Neshoba County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Tucker [Neshoba County].
- Missouri
- Ripley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Tucker [Ripley County].
- Montana
- Ravalli County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Tucker [Ravalli County].
- Oklahoma
- Le Flore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Tucker [Le Flore County].
- Woodward 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 Oklahoma community of Tucker [Woodward County].
- Oregon
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Tucker [Polk County].
- Texas
- Anderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Tucker [Anderson County].
- Utah
- Utah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Tucker [Utah County].
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Tucker ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Tucker:
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 Tucker - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
More Orphans in Kankakee 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 Kankakee County.
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Tucker 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/ |