Do you know of Lyons ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lyons. 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 Lyons.
We found mention of Lyons as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Miami 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 1859 and closed in 1867.
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 Lyons ...
We found 36 communities that share the name Lyons.
There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Lyons.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 35 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 35 communities, 35 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Rice County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lyons [Rice County].
- Rice County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
- Boulder County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Lyons [Boulder County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Lyons [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
- Montgomery 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 Georgia community of Lyons [Montgomery County].
- Tattnall 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 Georgia community of Lyons [Tattnall County].
- Toombs County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Lyons [Toombs County].
- Illinois
- Cook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Lyons [Cook County].
- Vermilion 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 Lyons [Vermilion County].
- Indiana
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Lyons [Greene County].
- Iowa
- Kentucky
- Larue County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Lyons [Larue County].
- Louisiana
- Michigan
- Missouri
- Laclede County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Lyons [Laclede County].
- Nebraska
- Burt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Lyons [Burt County].
- New Jersey
- Somerset County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Lyons [Somerset County].
- New York
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Lyons [Wayne County].
- North Carolina
- Granville County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Lyons [Granville County].
- North Dakota
- Morton County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Lyons [Morton County].
- Ohio
- Fulton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lyons [Fulton County].
- Oklahoma
- Adair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Lyons [Adair County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Lyons.
- Oregon
- Linn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Lyons [Linn County].
- Pennsylvania
- Berks County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Lyons [Berks County].
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Minnehaha County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Lyons [Minnehaha County].
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Virginia
- Wise County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Lyons [Wise County].
- Washington
- Spokane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Lyons [Spokane County].
- Wisconsin
- Walworth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Lyons [Walworth County].
- Wyoming
- Colorado
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lyons ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lyons:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
More Orphans in Miami 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 Miami 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Lyons 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/ |