Do you know of Shanks ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Shanks. 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 Shanks.<1>
We found mention of Shanks as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Howard 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.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1863 and closed in 1863.
Communities Also Named Shanks ...
We found two communities that share the name Shanks.
Within Indiana, the name Shanks is unique.
Beyond Indiana, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these two communities, one is located in the United States and the other in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Shanks ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Shanks:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
More Orphans in Howard 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 Howard County.
| Bassett | Kokomo Junction |
| Belt Railroad | |
| Middletons | |
| Centre | |
| Chancery | Noble |
| Duckrell | Olinda |
| Ervin | Pleasant Spring |
| Fairfield | South Kokomo |
| Fishers Grove | |
| Tapp | |
| Jewell | Tarkington |
| Terre Hall | |
| Kappa |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |