Do you know of Red Cross ???

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

Our sources for Red Cross (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 Red Cross other than they indicate that Red Cross would be found somewhere in Lawrence County, Indiana.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1893 and closed  in 1913.

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 Red Cross ...

We found four communities that share the name Red Cross.

Within Indiana, the name Red Cross is unique.

Beyond Indiana, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, three are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Kentucky
    • Barren County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Red Cross [Barren County].
  • North Carolina
    • Stanly County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Red Cross [Stanly County].
  • Pennsylvania
    • Northumberland County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Red Cross [Northumberland County].
  • Saskatchewan
    • Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Red Cross.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Red Cross ...

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

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

Map from 1908 (unknown title/publisher)

More Orphans in  Lawrence 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 Lawrence County.