Do you know of Yankeetown ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1884 and closed  in 1902.

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 Yankeetown ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Yankeetown.

Within Illinois, the name Yankeetown is unique.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, ten are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Florida
    • Levy County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Yankeetown [Levy County].
  • Indiana
    • Warrick County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Yankeetown [Warrick County].
  • Minnesota
    • Big Stone County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Yankeetown [Big Stone County].
  • Nova Scotia
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Yankeetown.
  • Ohio
    • Brown County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Yankeetown [Brown County].
    • Darke County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Yankeetown [Darke County].
    • Fayette County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Yankeetown [Fayette County].
    • Ross County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Yankeetown [Ross County].
    • Tuscarawas County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Yankeetown [Tuscarawas County].
  • Tennessee
    • White County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Yankeetown [White County].
  • Virginia
    • Rockingham County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Yankeetown [Rockingham County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Yankeetown ...

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

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Yankeetown - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Woodford 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 Woodford County.