Do you know of Poston ???

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

Our sources for Poston (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 Poston other than they indicate that Poston would be found somewhere in Ripley County, Indiana.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1856 and closed  in 1897.

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 Poston ...

We found three communities that share the name Poston.

Within Indiana, the name Poston is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arizona
    • La Paz County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Poston [La Paz County].
  • Ohio
    • Athens County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Poston [Athens County].
  • South Carolina
    • Florence County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Poston [Florence County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Poston ...

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

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 Poston - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

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

More Orphans in  Ripley 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 Ripley County.