Do you know of Arcola ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Arcola. 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 Arcola.<1>
We found mention of Arcola as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Scott 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.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1887 and closed in 1888.
Communities Also Named Arcola ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Arcola.
There are four communities within Kansas that are also named Arcola.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, twenty are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Cowley County
- Ellsworth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Arcola [Ellsworth County].
- Jefferson County
- Sumner County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Hale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Arcola [Hale County].
- Georgia
- Bulloch County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Arcola [Bulloch County].
- Illinois
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Arcola [Douglas County].
- Indiana
- Allen County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Arcola [Allen County].
- Louisiana
- Tangipahoa Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Arcola [Tangipahoa Parish].
- Maryland
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Arcola [Montgomery County].
- Minnesota
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Arcola [Washington County].
- Mississippi
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Arcola [Washington County].
- Missouri
- Dade County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Arcola [Dade County].
- New Jersey
- Bergen County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Arcola [Bergen County].
- North Carolina
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Arcola [Warren County].
- Pennsylvania
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Arcola [Montgomery County].
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Arcola.
- Texas
- Fort Bend County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Arcola [Fort Bend County].
- Virginia
- Loudoun County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Arcola [Loudoun County].
- West Virginia
- Webster County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Arcola [Webster County].
- Wyoming
- Laramie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Arcola [Laramie County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Arcola ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Arcola:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
More Orphans in Scott 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 Scott County.
| Devils Back Bone | Painter |
| Pueblo Indian Fort | |
| El Quartelejo | |
| Spring | |
| Friend | |
| Taft | |
| Hutchins Spur | Taw |
| Tractor | |
| Lester | |
| Zenobia |
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 Arcola 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. |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |