Do you know of Kingsville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Kingsville. 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 Kingsville.
Our sources for Kingsville (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 Kingsville other than they indicate that Kingsville would be found somewhere in Shawnee County, Kansas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1873 and closed in 1914.
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 Kingsville ...
We found sixteen communities that share the name Kingsville.
Within Kansas, the name Kingsville is unique.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Randolph County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Kingsville [Randolph County].
- California
- El Dorado County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Kingsville [El Dorado County].
- Kentucky
- Lincoln 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 Kentucky community of Kingsville [Lincoln County].
- Louisiana
- Rapides Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Kingsville [Rapides Parish].
- Maryland
- Baltimore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Kingsville [Baltimore County].
- Missouri
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Kingsville [Johnson County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Kingsville.
- Ohio
- Ashtabula County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Kingsville [Ashtabula County].
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Kingsville [Montgomery County].
- Tuscarawas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Kingsville [Tuscarawas County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Kingsville.
- Pennsylvania
- Clarion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Kingsville [Clarion County].
- South Carolina
- Richland 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 South Carolina community of Kingsville [Richland County].
- Texas
- Kleberg County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Kingsville [Kleberg County].
- Virginia
- Prince Edward County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Kingsville [Prince Edward County].
- West Virginia
- Randolph County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Kingsville [Randolph County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Kingsville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Kingsville:
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 Kingsville - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
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 Shawnee 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 Shawnee 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 Kingsville 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/ |