Do you know of Limestone (aka 'Simerton') ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Limestone. 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 Limestone.
We found mention of Limestone as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Washington County, Kansas.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1864 and closed in 1872.
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 Limestone ...
We found 31 communities that share the name Limestone.
There are three communities within Kansas that are also named Limestone.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 28 communities, 30 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Crawford County
- Jewell County
- Mitchell County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Madison 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 Alabama community of Limestone [Madison County].
- Monroe County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Limestone [Monroe County].
- Arkansas
- Newton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Limestone [Newton County].
- Florida
- Hardee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Limestone [Hardee County].
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Limestone [Jefferson County].
- Walton 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 Florida community of Limestone [Walton County].
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Kankakee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Limestone [Kankakee County].
- Peoria 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 Limestone [Peoria County].
- Kentucky
- Carter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Limestone [Carter County].
- Maine
- Aroostook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Limestone [Aroostook County].
- Michigan
- Alger County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Limestone [Alger County].
- Schoolcraft 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 Michigan community of Limestone [Schoolcraft County].
- Montana
- Stillwater County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Limestone [Stillwater County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Limestone.
- New York
- Cattaraugus County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Limestone [Cattaraugus County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Latimer 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 Oklahoma community of Limestone [Latimer County].
- Rogers County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Limestone [Rogers County].
- Pennsylvania
- Clarion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Limestone [Clarion County].
- South Carolina
- Edgefield County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Limestone [Edgefield County].
- Tennessee
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Limestone [Washington County].
- Texas
- West Virginia
- Harrison 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 West Virginia community of Limestone [Harrison County].
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Limestone [Marshall County].
- Mineral County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Limestone [Mineral County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Limestone ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Limestone:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Washington 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 Washington 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 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 Limestone 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/ |