Do you know of Elm Grove ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Elm Grove. 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 Elm Grove.
We found mention of Elm Grove as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Washington 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 1877.
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 Elm Grove ...
We found 30 communities that share the name Elm Grove.
There are two communities within Kansas that are also named Elm Grove.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 28 communities, 29 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Johnson County
- Pawnee County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Craighead County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Elm Grove [Craighead County].
- Illinois
- White County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Elm Grove [White County].
- Kentucky
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Elm Grove [Lawrence County].
- Louisiana
- Bossier Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Elm Grove [Bossier Parish].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Elm Grove.
- Massachusetts
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Elm Grove [Franklin County].
- Michigan
- Missouri
- New York
- Otsego County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Elm Grove [Otsego County].
- North Carolina
- Bertie County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Elm Grove [Bertie County].
- Chatham County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Elm Grove [Chatham County].
- Jones County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Elm Grove [Jones County].
- Lenoir County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Elm Grove [Lenoir County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Muskogee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Elm Grove [Muskogee County].
- Pennsylvania
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Elm Grove [Fayette County].
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Tipton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Elm Grove [Tipton County].
- Texas
- Brazoria County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Elm Grove [Brazoria County].
- Caldwell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Elm Grove [Caldwell County].
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Elm Grove [Cherokee County].
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Elm Grove [Fayette County].
- San Saba County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Elm Grove [San Saba County].
- Wharton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Elm Grove [Wharton County].
- Williamson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Elm Grove [Williamson County].
- West Virginia
- Ohio County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Elm Grove [Ohio County].
- Wisconsin
- Waukesha County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Elm Grove [Waukesha County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Elm Grove ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Elm Grove:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
More Orphans in Washington 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 Washington 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Elm Grove 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/ |