Do you know of Burgess ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Burgess, so we are uncertain whether Burgess 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 Burgess would be found somewhere in Johnson 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 Burgess ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Burgess.

There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Burgess.

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

Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Butler 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 Burgess [Butler County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Cherokee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Burgess [Cherokee County].
- California
  - Shasta County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Burgess [Shasta County].
- Georgia
  - Heard County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Burgess [Heard County].
- Illinois
  - Mercer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Burgess [Mercer County].
- Kentucky
  - Boyd 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 Burgess [Boyd County].
- Michigan
  - Charlevoix County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Burgess [Charlevoix County].
- Mississippi
  - Lafayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Burgess [Lafayette County].
- Missouri
  - Barton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Burgess [Barton County].
- North Carolina
  - Perquimans County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Burgess [Perquimans County].
- North Dakota
  - Morton 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 North Dakota community of Burgess [Morton County].
- South Carolina
  - Horry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Burgess [Horry County].
- Tennessee
  - Putnam County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Burgess [Putnam County].
- Texas
  - Bell 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 Texas community of Burgess [Bell County].
- Virginia
  - Dinwiddie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Burgess [Dinwiddie County].
  - Northumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Burgess [Northumberland County].

More Orphans in Johnson 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 Johnson County.

Allendale	Lone Elm
Alta
	McCamish
Baptist Mission	Meadow Brook
Bartleson	Midway
Belevue	Mission Highlands
Big Blue City	Missouri City
Big Bull	Missouriana
Black Bob	Monrovia
Blue Jackets Town	Morrison Ridge
Brookridge	Moss
Bull Creek	Mount Auburn
	Mount Moriah
Cambridge
Campbellton	New Century
Caravan Grove	New Santa Fe
Cedar Junction
Cedar Station	Olantha
Chillicothe	Olathe Park
Chilton	Oxford
Clarksville
Corliss	Phila
Crozier	Pioneer
Cunningham Highlands	Pleasant View
	Princeton
DeSoto Junction	Province Village
Dobson
	Quaker Mission
Elizabeth	Quivira Lake
Elizabethtown
Elm Grove	Red Clover
	Romance
Gardner Lake
Gleed	Saint Leander
Glen Arbor	Schaerfftown
Glenn	Shawnee Mission
Goodman	Shawneetown
Green Springs	Sherman
	Snake Den
Haysville	South Park
Hector	Southwest Gardens
Hocker Grove
Hopewell	Tower Grove
	Turpinville
Indian Creek	Tuscarona Lake

Jerusaleam	Uniontown

Lexington	Weirs
Little Bull	Wier's Station
Little Santa Fe

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 Burgess 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.