Do you know of Garrison ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Garrison. 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 Garrison.
Our sources for Garrison (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 Garrison other than they indicate that Garrison would be found somewhere in Pottawatomie County, Kansas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1880 and closed in 1959.
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 Garrison ...
We found nineteen communities that share the name Garrison.
Within Kansas, the name Garrison is unique.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Garrison [Hamilton County].
- Iowa
- Benton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Garrison [Benton County].
- Kentucky
- Lewis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Garrison [Lewis County].
- Maryland
- Baltimore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Garrison [Baltimore County].
- Minnesota
- Crow Wing County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Garrison [Crow Wing County].
- Missouri
- Christian County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Garrison [Christian County].
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Garrison [Butler County].
- New Mexico
- New York
- Putnam County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Garrison [Putnam County].
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- McLean County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Garrison [McLean County].
- Pennsylvania
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Garrison [Greene County].
- Texas
- Nacogdoches County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Garrison [Nacogdoches County].
- Utah
- Millard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Garrison [Millard County].
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Boone County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Garrison [Boone County].
- Illinois
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Garrison ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Garrison:
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 Garrison - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (January 1950)
Published by Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (June 1939)
Published by Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (September 1924)
Published by Union Pacific Railroad
Rand McNally Map of Kansas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Pottawatomie 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 Pottawatomie 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 Garrison 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/ |