Do you know of Evansville ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1882 and closed in 1896.

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 Evansville ...

We found 28 communities that share the name Evansville.

There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Evansville.

Beyond Kansas, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 27 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Doniphan 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 Kansas community of Evansville [Doniphan County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Chambers County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Evansville [Chambers County].
  - Hale County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Evansville [Hale County].
- Alaska
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Evansville.
- Arkansas
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Evansville [Washington County].
- California
  - Butte County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Evansville [Butte County].
- Colorado
  - Rio Grande County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Evansville [Rio Grande County].
- Georgia
  - Troup County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Evansville [Troup County].
- Illinois
  - Randolph County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Evansville [Randolph County].
- Indiana
  - Vanderburgh County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Evansville [Vanderburgh County].
- Minnesota
  - Douglas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Evansville [Douglas County].
- Mississippi
  - Tate County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Evansville [Tate County].
  - Tunica County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Evansville [Tunica County].
- Missouri
  - Buchanan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Evansville [Buchanan County].
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Evansville [Monroe County].
- New York
  - Washington 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 New York community of Evansville [Washington County].
- Ohio
  - Putnam 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 Ohio community of Evansville [Putnam County].
  - Trumbull County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Evansville [Trumbull County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Evansville.
- Oregon
  - Linn County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Evansville [Linn County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Berks County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Evansville [Berks County].
  - Columbia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Evansville [Columbia County].
- Tennessee
  - Dyer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Evansville [Dyer County].
- Vermont
  - Orleans County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Evansville [Orleans County].
- Washington
  - King County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Evansville [King County].
- West Virginia
  - Preston County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Evansville [Preston County].
- Wisconsin
  - Rock County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Evansville [Rock County].
- Wyoming
  - Natrona County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Evansville [Natrona County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Evansville ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

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

More Orphans in Comanche 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 Comanche County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Evansville 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/