Do you know of Bloomington ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Bloomington, so we are uncertain whether Bloomington is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Bloomington would be found somewhere in Coffey County, Kansas.

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 Bloomington ...

We found 32 communities that share the name Bloomington.

There are four communities within Kansas that are also named Bloomington.

Beyond Kansas, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 28 communities, 30 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Atchison 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 Kansas community of Bloomington [Atchison County].
- Butler County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Bloomington [Butler County].
- Osborne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Bloomington [Osborne County].
- Riley 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 Kansas community of Bloomington [Riley County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Jackson 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 Alabama community of Bloomington [Jackson County].
- Arkansas
  - Van Buren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Bloomington [Van Buren County].
- California
  - San Bernardino County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Bloomington [San Bernardino County].
- Idaho
  - Bear Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Bloomington [Bear Lake County].
- Illinois
  - McLean County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Bloomington [McLean County].
- Indiana
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Bloomington [Monroe County].
- Iowa
  - Story County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Bloomington [Story County].
- Kentucky
  - Grayson 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 Kentucky community of Bloomington [Grayson County].
  - Magoffin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Bloomington [Magoffin County].
- Maryland
  - Garrett County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Bloomington [Garrett County].
- Minnesota
  - Hennepin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Bloomington [Hennepin County].
- Missouri
  - Macon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Bloomington [Macon County].
- Nebraska
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Bloomington [Franklin County].
- New York
  - Ulster County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Bloomington [Ulster County].
- North Carolina
  - Stanly County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Bloomington [Stanly County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Bloomington.
- Ohio
  - Clinton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bloomington [Clinton County].
- Oklahoma
  - Greer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Bloomington [Greer County].
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Bloomington.
- Pennsylvania
  - Clearfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bloomington [Clearfield County].
  - Lackawanna County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bloomington [Lackawanna County].
- South Dakota
  - Charles Mix County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Bloomington [Charles Mix County].
- Tennessee
  - Pickett County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Bloomington [Pickett County].
  - Putnam 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 Tennessee community of Bloomington [Putnam County].
- Texas
  - Victoria County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Bloomington [Victoria County].
- Utah
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Bloomington [Washington County].
- West Virginia
  - Roane County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Bloomington [Roane County].
- Wisconsin
  - Grant County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Bloomington [Grant County].

More Orphans in Coffey 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 Coffey County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Bloomington 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.