Do you know of Mansfield ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Mansfield. 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 Mansfield.
We found mention of Mansfield as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Wabaunsee 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 1883 and closed in 1887.
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 Mansfield ...
We found 32 communities that share the name Mansfield.
There are three communities within Kansas that are also named Mansfield.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 29 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 29 communities, 30 are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Finney County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Mansfield [Finney County].
- Jackson County
- Linn County
- Finney County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Lamar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Mansfield [Lamar County].
- Arkansas
- Sebastian County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Mansfield [Sebastian County].
- California
- Georgia
- Newton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Mansfield [Newton County].
- Illinois
- Piatt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Mansfield [Piatt County].
- Indiana
- Parke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Mansfield [Parke County].
- Louisiana
- De Soto Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Mansfield [De Soto Parish].
- Massachusetts
- Bristol County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Mansfield [Bristol County].
- Michigan
- Iron County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Mansfield [Iron County].
- Isabella 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 Mansfield [Isabella County].
- Minnesota
- Freeborn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Mansfield [Freeborn County].
- Pine 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 Minnesota community of Mansfield [Pine County].
- Missouri
- Wright County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Mansfield [Wright County].
- Nebraska
- New Jersey
- Burlington County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Mansfield [Burlington County].
- North Carolina
- Carteret County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Mansfield [Carteret County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Mansfield.
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Mansfield.
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny 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 Pennsylvania community of Mansfield [Allegheny County].
- Tioga County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Mansfield [Tioga County].
- South Dakota
- Brown County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Mansfield [Brown County].
- Tennessee
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Mansfield [Henry County].
- Texas
- Tarrant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Mansfield [Tarrant County].
- Virginia
- Washington
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Mansfield [Douglas County].
- West Virginia
- Barbour County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Mansfield [Barbour County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mansfield ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Mansfield:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
More Orphans in Wabaunsee 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 Wabaunsee 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 Mansfield 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/ |