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Do you know of Diggs ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1884 and closed  in 1884.

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 Diggs ...

We found two communities that share the name Diggs.

Within Kansas, the name Diggs is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • North Carolina
      • Richmond County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Diggs [Richmond County].
    • Virginia
      • Mathews County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Diggs [Mathews County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Diggs ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

More Orphans in  Decatur 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 Decatur County.

Bassettville 
BelfordLund
Borin 
 Mendota
Central City 
CleversburgPlato
Connersville 
 Rufo
Decatur CentreRuth
Decatur 
 Shibboleth
HaweyeSpring Vale
HawkeyeStephen
HazardSykes
Hooker 
 Tappa
Jackson 
 Vallonia
Kalamazoo 
KeeferWestfield

Footnotes ...

<1>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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This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024