Do you know of Fair Haven ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fair Haven. 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 Fair Haven.<1>

Our sources for Fair Haven (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Fair Haven other than they indicate that Fair Haven would be found somewhere in Norton County, Kansas.

Communities Also Named Fair Haven ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Fair Haven.

Within Kansas, the name Fair Haven is unique.

Beyond Kansas, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Connecticut
  - New Haven County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Fair Haven [New Haven County].
- Illinois
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Fair Haven [Carroll County].
- Michigan
  - Saint Clair County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Fair Haven [Saint Clair County].
- Missouri
  - Vernon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Fair Haven [Vernon County].
- New Jersey
  - Monmouth County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Fair Haven [Monmouth County].
- New York
  - Cayuga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fair Haven [Cayuga County].
  - Cortland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fair Haven [Cortland County].
  - Orleans County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fair Haven [Orleans County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
  - Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Fair Haven.
- North Carolina
  - Moore County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Fair Haven [Moore County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Allegheny County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Fair Haven [Allegheny County].
- Vermont
  - Rutland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Fair Haven [Rutland County].
- Virginia
  - Fairfax County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Fair Haven [Fairfax County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fair Haven ...

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in Norton 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 Norton County.

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 Fair Haven 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.