Do you know of Hawley ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hawley. 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 Hawley.
Our sources for Hawley (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 Hawley other than they indicate that Hawley would be found somewhere in Russell County, Kansas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1880 and closed in 1909.
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 Hawley ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Hawley.
Within Kansas, the name Hawley is unique.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, nineteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Plumas County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Hawley [Plumas County].
- San Diego 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 California community of Hawley [San Diego County].
- Colorado
- Otero County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Hawley [Otero County].
- Idaho
- Blaine County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Hawley [Blaine County].
- Illinois
- Henry 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 Illinois community of Hawley [Henry County].
- Tazewell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Hawley [Tazewell County].
- Iowa
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Hawley [Hancock County].
- Massachusetts
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Hawley [Franklin County].
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Hawley [Clay County].
- Missouri
- Jasper 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 Missouri community of Hawley [Jasper County].
- Wright County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Hawley [Wright County].
- Nebraska
- Blaine County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Hawley [Blaine County].
- Oklahoma
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Hawley [Grant County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Hawley.
- Pennsylvania
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Hawley [Wayne County].
- South Dakota
- Texas
- Jones County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Hawley [Jones County].
- Washington
- Kitsap County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Hawley [Kitsap County].
- West Virginia
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hawley ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hawley:
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 Hawley - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Kansas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Russell 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 Russell 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 Hawley 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/ |