Do you know of Lincolnshire ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Lincolnshire, so we are uncertain whether Lincolnshire is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Lincolnshire would be found somewhere in Vigo County, Indiana.

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 Lincolnshire ...

We found nine communities that share the name Lincolnshire.

There are three communities within Indiana that are also named Lincolnshire.

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

Communities Located In Indiana ...
- Allen County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Lincolnshire [Allen County].
- Elkhart 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 Indiana community of Lincolnshire [Elkhart County].
- Grant 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 Indiana community of Lincolnshire [Grant County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
  - Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Lincolnshire [Lake County].
  - Will County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Lincolnshire [Will County].
- Kentucky
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Lincolnshire [Jefferson County].
- Ohio
  - Erie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lincolnshire [Erie County].
- South Carolina
  - Richland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Lincolnshire [Richland County].
- West Virginia
  - Wood County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Lincolnshire [Wood County].

More Orphans in Vigo 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 Vigo County.

Amber Valley	Maryland
	Marywood
Bakers Siding	Maurius
Bartley	Meadows
Belt Junction	Meltonville
Bradshaw	Middletown
Broadlands	Mount Pleasant

Champion	Nelson
Chinook	New Market
Collett Park	Northwood
Colonial Park
Cookerly	Oak Grove
County Line	Otter Creek
Cummings
	Paint Mill Lake
Deerfield	Paynes
Dresser	Poplar Hill
	Prairie Village
Edgewood Grove
Edwards	Robinwood
Ellsworth	Rose Hill Gardens
	Ross
French Lake
Fruit Hill	Saint Mary's
	Shawville
Gilbert	Sheridan Park
Glenayr	Soonover
Glendale	South Lake
Glenn	Spring Hill Junction
Grant	Springwood
Gravel Pit	Stratford Hills
Grouseland	Sycamore Knolls
Grover	Sycamore Park

Heckland	Tera North
Holly Hills	Terra Vista

Idaho	Vedder

Kenwood	Wanda Lake
Kingswood Terra	Watkins
	Wauhoo
Lake Noji	Wey Lake
Lakewood	Windemere Lake
Limberlost Hills	Wonder Lake
	Woodgate East
Macksville	Woodridge
Malcolm
Maplewood	Young
Marquette Farm	Youngstown Meadows

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 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 Lincolnshire 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.