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Do you know of Chance ???

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

Our sources for Chance (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Chance other than they indicate that Chance would be found somewhere in Wallace County, Kansas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1904 and closed  in 1923.

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 Chance ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Chance.

Within Kansas, the name Chance is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Cherokee 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 Chance [Cherokee County].
      • Clarke County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Chance [Clarke County].
    • Colorado
      • Gunnison County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Chance [Gunnison County].
    • Kentucky
      • Adair County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Chance [Adair County].
    • Maryland
      • Somerset County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Chance [Somerset County].
    • Montana
      • Carbon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Chance [Carbon County].
    • North Carolina
      • Sampson 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 Carolina community of Chance [Sampson County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Adair County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Chance [Adair County].
    • South Dakota
      • Perkins County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Chance [Perkins County].
    • Texas
      • Burleson 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 Chance [Burleson County].
    • Virginia
      • Essex County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Chance [Essex County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Chance ...

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

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

Rand McNally Map of Kansas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Wallace 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 Wallace County.

Big TimbersLadder
BlaisevilleLister
Blue Mound 
 Monotony
Camp Pond CreekMontero
CarlyleMonument Siding
Cutler 
 Phil Sheridan
DalePunished Womans Fork
Dinas 
 Runyon
Elizabeth 
 Sexton
Fitch's MeadowsSheridan
Forest HillSmoky Hill
 Stockholm
GobleSulphur Springs
Goose City 
GrotonTurkey Creek
  
Hendricks StationVega
Henshaw 
HolmesWillow Creek
HummerWodehouse
  
JimYocum
 Yost City

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Chance 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.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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