Do you know of Alexander ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Alexander. 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 Alexander.<1>
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Alexander, so we are uncertain whether Alexander is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Alexander would be found somewhere in Douglas County, Kansas.
Communities Also Named Alexander ...
We found 28 communities that share the name Alexander.
There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Alexander.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 26 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Rush County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Alexander [Rush County].
- Rush County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Sumter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Alexander [Sumter County].
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Alexander.
- Arkansas
- Greene County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Alexander [Greene County].
- Saline County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Alexander [Saline County].
- Colorado
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Alexander [Lake County].
- Georgia
- Burke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Alexander [Burke County].
- Paulding County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Alexander [Paulding County].
- Idaho
- Caribou County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Alexander [Caribou County].
- Illinois
- Kane County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Alexander [Kane County].
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Alexander [Morgan County].
- Iowa
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Alexander [Franklin County].
- Kentucky
- Allen County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Alexander [Allen County].
- Fulton 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 Kentucky community of Alexander [Fulton County].
- Maine
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Alexander [Washington County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Alexander.
- Michigan
- Chippewa County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Alexander [Chippewa County].
- Crawford 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 Michigan community of Alexander [Crawford County].
- Mississippi
- Issaquena County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Alexander [Issaquena County].
- Nevada
- Elko County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Alexander [Elko County].
- New York
- Genesee County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Alexander [Genesee County].
- North Carolina
- Buncombe County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Alexander [Buncombe County].
- North Dakota
- McKenzie County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Alexander [McKenzie County].
- Ohio
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Erath County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Alexander [Erath County].
- West Virginia
- Upshur County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Alexander [Upshur County].
- Alabama
More Orphans in Douglas 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 Douglas County.
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> | 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Alexander 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. |