Welcome to Alliance ...
Although we found mention of Alliance during our research, we have little information about it.<1> We believe that Alliance 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 Alliance was located in Ellsworth County, we don't know its actual location within the county.
We've added Alliance to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Alliance - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Alliance, please Contact Us.
Time Zone: The area where we believe that Alliance might be (or was) located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time
We believe that Alliance would be found within the (785) area code.
Communities Also Named Alliance ...
While we believe that this Alliance is located in Ellsworth County, we know of another 3 Kansas communities named Alliance. Those communities are located in the following counties: Barton, Ellis and Neosho County.
Beyond Kansas, there are 28 communities that are also named Alliance - they are located in Alabama (2), Alberta, California, Florida (2), Georgia (2), Indiana (2), Kentucky, Louisiana (2), Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Ontario, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Alliance.
Adding Alliance 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.
Our notes show that the earliest dated mention that we've found for Alliance was in the Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).
For more details about the above, see References and Mentions for Alliance on our Genealogy Page.
Other Roadside Stops ...
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Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Ellsworth County: www.ellsworthcounty.org
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 Alliance and then turned east". While Alliance could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Alliance 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 Alliance 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. |