Do you know of Dixon ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Dixon. 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 Dixon.
We found mention of Dixon as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Coffey 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 1872 and closed in 1878.
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 Dixon ...
We found 38 communities that share the name Dixon.
There are three communities within Kansas that are also named Dixon.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 35 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 35 communities, 36 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Anderson County
- Butler County
- Jefferson County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Solano County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Dixon [Solano County].
- Colorado
- Florida
- Walton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Dixon [Walton County].
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Dixon [Lee County].
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Dixon [Scott County].
- Kentucky
- Webster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Dixon [Webster County].
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Alger County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Dixon [Alger County].
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Pulaski County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Dixon [Pulaski County].
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Dixon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Dixon [Dixon County].
- New Mexico
- Rio Arriba County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Dixon [Rio Arriba County].
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Seminole County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Dixon [Seminole County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Dixon.
- Oregon
- Wasco County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Dixon [Wasco County].
- Pennsylvania
- Wyoming County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Dixon [Wyoming County].
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Dixon.
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Gregory County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Dixon [Gregory County].
- Tennessee
- Wilson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Dixon [Wilson County].
- Texas
- Hunt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Dixon [Hunt County].
- Vermont
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- Carbon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Dixon [Carbon County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dixon ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Dixon:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
More Orphans in Coffey 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 Coffey County.
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Dixon 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/ |