Do you know of Bowling Green (aka 'Boling Green') ???

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

We found mention of Bowling Green 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 1855 and closed in 1857.

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 Bowling Green ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Bowling Green.

There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Bowling Green.

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

Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Sumner 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 Bowling Green [Sumner County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Sacramento 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 California community of Bowling Green [Sacramento County].
- Florida
  - Hardee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Bowling Green [Hardee County].
- Georgia
  - Oglethorpe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Bowling Green [Oglethorpe County].
- Illinois
  - Woodford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Bowling Green [Woodford County].
- Indiana
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Bowling Green [Clay County].
- Kentucky
  - Warren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Bowling Green [Warren County].
- Maryland
  - Allegany County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Bowling Green [Allegany County].
- Mississippi
  - Holmes County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Bowling Green [Holmes County].
- Missouri
  - Pike County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Bowling Green [Pike County].
- New York
  - New York 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 New York community of Bowling Green [New York County].
- Ohio
  - Brown County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bowling Green [Brown County].
  - Licking County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bowling Green [Licking County].
  - Wood County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bowling Green [Wood County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Bowling Green.
- Pennsylvania
  - Delaware County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bowling Green [Delaware County].
- South Carolina
  - York County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Bowling Green [York County].
- Utah
  - Salt Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Bowling Green [Salt Lake County].
- Virginia
  - Caroline County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Bowling Green [Caroline County].
  - Roanoke City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Bowling Green [Roanoke City].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bowling Green ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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 ...

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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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Bowling Green 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.

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

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