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Do you know of Durachen ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1882 and closed  in 1909.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Durachen ...

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

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Butler 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 Butler County.

AmadorMundock
AnnapolisMurdock
Aral 
ArizonaNellans
AvocaNelson Place
AyrNew Excelsior
 New Hampshire
BodarcNinnesk
BodockNoble
BrittonNuma
Brownlow 
BryantOil City
BunchOil Hill
BurgessOphir
Burne's StationOrizonia
BurnsOtto City
 Overton
Cage 
CaribooPendell
Cave SpringPetersburgh
Clear FordPine Grove
ClevelandPleasant Valley
CornhillPlum Grove
CrittendenPrairie Plains
 Providence
Dixon 
 Quality Valley
Edgecomb 
 Redden
FontanelleRichland Centre
Four Mile 
FreedomSchonholm
 Siville
GlenSpring Branch
GlencoeSunnyside
 Sycamore Springs
Hedge City 
HepsidamTennessee Bend
HickoryTint
 Tolle
Indianola 
 Vandona
Kossuth 
 Wah-Wah
LawrenceWalnut
LovenaWebster City
 Wendell
Meades RanchWhite Eagle
MidlandWhite
MilwaukeeWorth
Minneha 
ModenaZarah
Mulberry Grove 

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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