Welcome to Alcona ...
Although we found mention of Alcona during our research, we have little information about it.<1> We believe that Alcona had a post office at one time. We have done a cursory search and haven't been able to find any evidence that the community still exists..
While we are confident that Alcona was located in Rooks County, we don't know its actual location within the county.
We've added Alcona to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Alcona - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Alcona, please Contact Us.
Time Zone: The area where we believe that Alcona might be (or was) located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time
We believe that Alcona would be found within the (785) area code.
Adding Alcona to Our Gazetteer ...
As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.
That's the case with Alcona: The earliest book where we found it mentioned was in the Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).
We also found Alcona on a Rand McNally Map of Kansas (1911).
For more details about the above, see References and Mentions for Alcona on our Genealogy Page.
Communities Also Named Alcona ...
Using our Gazetteer, we have found that there are 3 communities that are also named Alcona - they are located in Michigan and Ontario (2).
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Alcona.
Other Roadside Stops ...
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Rooks County: www.rookscounty.net/
The official website for State of Kansas: https://portal.kansas.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Alcona and then turned east". While Alcona could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Alcona as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future. 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 Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller Creek 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 Alcona 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. |