Welcome to Claytonville (aka 'Clayton') ...

So far, we found very little information about Claytonville. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Claytonville to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Claytonville - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Claytonville, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Claytonville <3>, we believe that it would have been located within present day Brown County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Claytonville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1857.

Time Zone: The area where Claytonville was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Claytonville would have been located in the (785) area code.

The community of Claytonville has also been called Clayton.

Communities Also Named Claytonville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 5 communities that are also named Claytonville - they are located in Illinois, Missouri, Texas (2) and Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Claytonville.

Adding Claytonville to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Claytonville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Claytonville post office opened in 1857.

We also found Claytonville in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Claytonville.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Brown County: www.brown.kansasgov.com/

The official website for State of Kansas: https://portal.kansas.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Claytonville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Kansas' counties, including Brown, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	Claytonville is also known as Clayton. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Claytonville.
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/