Do you know of Saint Joseph ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Saint Joseph. 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 Saint Joseph.
We found mention of Saint Joseph as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Allen County, Indiana.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1851 and closed in 1854.
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 Saint Joseph ...
We found 32 communities that share the name Saint Joseph.
There are three communities within Indiana that are also named Saint Joseph.
Beyond Indiana, we know of another 29 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 29 communities, 27 are located in the United States and nine are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Indiana ...
- Clark 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 Saint Joseph [Clark County].
- Floyd County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Saint Joseph [Floyd County].
- Vanderburgh County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Saint Joseph [Vanderburgh County].
- Clark County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Apache 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 Arizona community of Saint Joseph [Apache County].
- Florida
- Pasco County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Saint Joseph [Pasco County].
- Georgia
- Fulton 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 Georgia community of Saint Joseph [Fulton County].
- Illinois
- Champaign County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Saint Joseph [Champaign County].
- Iowa
- Kossuth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Saint Joseph [Kossuth County].
- Kansas
- Cloud County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Saint Joseph [Cloud County].
- Reno 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 Kansas community of Saint Joseph [Reno County].
- Kentucky
- Daviess County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Saint Joseph [Daviess County].
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Saint Joseph [Marion County].
- Louisiana
- Tensas Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Saint Joseph [Tensas Parish].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Saint Joseph.
- Michigan
- Berrien County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Saint Joseph [Berrien County].
- Minnesota
- Stearns County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Saint Joseph [Stearns County].
- Missouri
- Buchanan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Saint Joseph [Buchanan County].
- Nevada
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Saint Joseph [Clark County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Saint Joseph.
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Saint Joseph.
- Ohio
- Mercer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Saint Joseph [Mercer County].
- Portage County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Saint Joseph [Portage County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Saint Joseph.
- Oregon
- Yamhill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Saint Joseph [Yamhill County].
- Pennsylvania
- Susquehanna County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Saint Joseph [Susquehanna County].
- Quebec
- 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 Quebec community of Saint Joseph.
- South Dakota
- 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 South Dakota community of Saint Joseph [Grant County].
- Tennessee
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Saint Joseph [Lawrence County].
- West Virginia
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Saint Joseph [Marshall County].
- Wisconsin
- Fond du Lac 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 Wisconsin community of Saint Joseph [Fond du Lac County].
- La Crosse County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Saint Joseph [La Crosse County].
- Saint Croix County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Saint Joseph [Saint Croix County].
- Arizona
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Saint Joseph ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Saint Joseph:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
More Orphans in Allen 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 Allen 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 Saint Joseph 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/ |