Do you know of Elkhorn ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Elkhorn. 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 Elkhorn.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Elkhorn, so we are uncertain whether Elkhorn is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Elkhorn would be found somewhere in Ottawa County, Kansas.
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 Elkhorn ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Elkhorn.
There are three communities within Kansas that are also named Elkhorn.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 21 communities, 23 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- California
- Monterey County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Elkhorn [Monterey County].
- Idaho
- Shoshone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Elkhorn [Shoshone County].
- Illinois
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Concordia Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Elkhorn [Concordia Parish].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Elkhorn.
- Maryland
- Howard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Elkhorn [Howard County].
- Michigan
- Schoolcraft County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Elkhorn [Schoolcraft County].
- Missouri
- Ray County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Elkhorn [Ray County].
- Montana
- Nebraska
- New York
- Oregon
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Elkhorn [Marion County].
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Elkhorn [Allegheny County].
- Tennessee
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Elkhorn [Henry County].
- Virginia
- Halifax County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Elkhorn [Halifax County].
- West Virginia
- McDowell County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Elkhorn [McDowell County].
- Wisconsin
- Walworth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Elkhorn [Walworth County].
More Orphans in Ottawa 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 Ottawa 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Elkhorn 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. |