Do you know of Alexandria ???

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

We found mention of Alexandria as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Leavenworth County, Kansas.

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 1856 and closed in 1857.

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 Alexandria ...

We found 24 communities that share the name Alexandria.

Within Kansas, the name Alexandria is unique.

Beyond Kansas, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 21 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Calhoun County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Alexandria [Calhoun County].
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Alexandria.
- Georgia
  - Elbert 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 Alexandria [Elbert County].
- Indiana
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Alexandria [Madison County].
- Kentucky
  - Campbell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Alexandria [Campbell County].
  - Kenton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Alexandria [Kenton County].
- Louisiana
  - Rapides Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Alexandria [Rapides Parish].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Alexandria.
- Minnesota
  - Douglas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Alexandria [Douglas County].
- Missouri
  - Callaway County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Alexandria [Callaway County].
  - Clark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Alexandria [Clark County].
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Alexandria [Lincoln County].
- Nebraska
  - Thayer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Alexandria [Thayer County].
- New Hampshire
  - Grafton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Alexandria [Grafton County].
- New Jersey
  - Essex 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 New Jersey community of Alexandria [Essex County].
- Ohio
  - Licking County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Alexandria [Licking County].
  - Ross County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Alexandria [Ross County].
  - Scioto County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Alexandria [Scioto County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Alexandria.
- Pennsylvania
  - Huntingdon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Alexandria [Huntingdon County].
- South Dakota
  - Hanson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Alexandria [Hanson County].
- Tennessee
  - DeKalb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Alexandria [DeKalb County].
- Virginia
  - Alexandria City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Alexandria [Alexandria City].
  - Virginia Beach City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Alexandria [Virginia Beach City].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Alexandria ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

More Orphans in Leavenworth 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 Leavenworth County.

Ackerland	Miocene
Alfa	Moore's Summit
	Moore's
Bastion	Moravian Mission
Bell	Mount Aurora
Boling	Mount Olive
Bonner	Mount Olivet
Briggsvale
	Neeley
Center	Newcastle
Centerville	Nuato
Cincinnati
Clarksville	Ogdenburg
Clementville	Ole

Dafer	Penitentiary Station
Daisy	Pensenaus Landing
Dawson's Ford	Pensineau
Delaware Crossing	Petersburg
Drydale	Pilot Knob
	Pleasant Lodge
East Leavenworth	Pleasant Ridge
Edminister	Pope
Eight Mile House	Progress
Evanston
	Rapps Mills
Fairholme	Renco
Fall	Rively's Trading Post
Fort Leavenworth	Riverside
	Ross
Greenbush
	Salem
Half Way House	Salt Creek
Hardville	Sarcoxie
Harkiness	Seuferts
Hastingsville	Sherman
Hawk Hollow	Somerville
High Prairie	South Leavenworth
Honey Valley	Spring Valley
Hund's Station	Standish
	Stanley's
Jaggard	Stanwood
Jay	Steuben
Junction	Stranger Valley
	Stranger Village
Kanzas Jesuit Mission	Summerville
Kickapoo Methodist Mission	Summit

Lattaville	Uniontown
Lebreton	Usher

Marburg	Wade
Maria	Weimar
Martensburg	Wilson's Trading Post
Martinsburg	Wimir
Mason Ford	Wymer
Merritt

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 Alexandria 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/