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Do you know of Amazon ???

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

We found mention of Amazon as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Finney 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 1893 and closed  in 1896.

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 Amazon ...

We found three communities that share the name Amazon.

Within Kansas, the name Amazon is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Montana
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Amazon [Jefferson County].
    • Nevada
      • Elko County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Amazon [Elko County].
    • Saskatchewan
      • Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Amazon.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Amazon ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

More Orphans in  Finney County ...

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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 Finney County.

AlfalfaImperial
AlphaIvanhoe
  
BelfastKnauston
Bradley 
Buffalo CityLeavitt
 Lockport
ColusaLoco
CreolaLoyal
Crystal Lake 
 McCue
DeerfieldMontezuma
  
Edwin CityOmega
Essex 
ExamplePasadena
 Preston
Felix 
FultonSanta Fe
 Sidney
GillespieStanton
 Stowe
Hatfield 
HeightsTerry
HendricksTerryton
  

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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