Do you know of Berea ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Berea. 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 Berea.
We found mention of Berea as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Franklin 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 1863 and closed in 1870.
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 Berea ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Berea.
Within Kansas, the name Berea is unique.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Ashley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Berea [Ashley County].
- Iowa
- Adair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Berea [Adair County].
- Kentucky
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Berea [Madison County].
- Mississippi
- Attala County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Berea [Attala County].
- Nebraska
- Box Butte County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Berea [Box Butte County].
- New York
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Berea [Orange County].
- North Carolina
- Granville County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Berea [Granville County].
- North Dakota
- Barnes County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Berea [Barnes County].
- Ohio
- Cuyahoga County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Berea [Cuyahoga County].
- South Carolina
- Greenville County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Berea [Greenville County].
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Virginia
- Stafford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Berea [Stafford County].
- West Virginia
- Ritchie County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Berea [Ritchie County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Berea ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Berea:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Franklin 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 Franklin County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |