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Do you know of Branchport ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Branchport. 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 Branchport.<1>

We found mention of Branchport as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Jewell 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 1871 and closed  in 1871.

Communities Also Named Branchport ...

We found two communities that share the name Branchport.

Within Kansas, the name Branchport is unique.

Beyond Kansas, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • New Jersey
      • Monmouth County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Branchport [Monmouth County].
    • New York
      • Yates County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Branchport [Yates County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Branchport ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

More Orphans in  Jewell 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 Jewell County.

AltaLimestone
AmityLithium
Arastella 
ArconaMarsh Valley
AreonaMayview
AthensMidway
AuroraModoc
  
Big BendOakland
BishopOdessa
BranchOmio
 Orino
Cedarville 
Cerro GordoPlymouth
 Providence
Eleon 
ElsonQuaker Point
Excelsior Colony 
 Rotterdam
Glenora 
GranvilleSalem
GreenvilleSpringdale
 Steuben
HarrisonSuperior
Huron 
 Upland
Ibaton 
IniaVicksburg
  
Jewell CityWest Hope
JohnsonvilleWhite Mound
 White Rock City

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

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