Do you know of Kearney ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Kearney. 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 Kearney.
Our sources for Kearney (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 Kearney other than they indicate that Kearney would be found somewhere in Kearny County, Kansas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1886 and closed in 1918.
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 Kearney ...
We found sixteen communities that share the name Kearney.
There are two communities within Kansas that are also named Kearney.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Grant County
- Hamilton County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Calhoun County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Kearney [Calhoun County].
- Arkansas
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Kearney [Jefferson County].
- California
- Maryland
- Garrett County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Kearney [Garrett County].
- Mississippi
- Yazoo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Kearney [Yazoo County].
- Missouri
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Kearney [Clay County].
- Nebraska
- Buffalo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Kearney [Buffalo County].
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- Otero County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Kearney [Otero County].
- North Carolina
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Kearney [Franklin County].
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Kearney ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Kearney:
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 Kearney - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Kansas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Kearny 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 Kearny County.
| Bluff Station | Mortonville |
| Mount Aubrey | |
| Chantily | |
| Chouteau's Island | Oanica |
| Conquest | Omaha |
| Emory | Passaic |
| Lydia | Windsor |
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Kearney 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/ |