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Do you know of Crainville ???

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

Our sources for Crainville (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 Crainville other than they indicate that Crainville would be found somewhere in Republic County, Kansas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1878 and closed  in 1895.

Communities Also Named Crainville ...

We found one communities that share the name Crainville.

Within Kansas, the name Crainville is unique.

Beyond Kansas, there is another community also named Crainville in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Illinois
      • Williamson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Crainville [Williamson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Crainville ...

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

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Crainville - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Republic 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 Republic County.

AlbionMoorehouse
  
Big BendNeilsburgh
ByronNeva
 New Hope
Center MoundNew Liberty
Centre MoundNorth Elk
  
ElgoPawnee Village
Elk CreekPleasant Hill
ElmaPleasant Plains
 Prairie Grove
Fairview 
FenwickRock
Flag StationRosalind
  
HackberryScotch Plain
 Seapo
IdaSoldier
 Sunset
Jefferson 
JewellTiago
 Trasey
LeopoldTwin Creek
 Twin Grove
Marsh Creek 
MidlandUnion Valley
Mimosa 
MinersvilleWest Creek
Minnewaukan 

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>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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