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Do you know of Marietta ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Marietta. 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 Marietta.

We found mention of Marietta as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Saline 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 1874 and closed  in 1874.

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 Marietta ...

We found 23 communities that share the name Marietta.

There are two communities within Kansas that are also named Marietta.

Beyond Kansas, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Kansas ...
    • Marshall County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Marietta [Marshall County].
    • Reno 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 Kansas community of Marietta [Reno County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Escambia County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Marietta [Escambia County].
    • Florida
      • Duval County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Marietta [Duval County].
      • Hillsborough County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Marietta [Hillsborough County].
    • Georgia
      • Cobb County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Marietta [Cobb County].
    • Illinois
      • Fulton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Marietta [Fulton County].
    • Indiana
      • Shelby County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Marietta [Shelby County].
    • Iowa
      • Marshall County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Marietta [Marshall County].
    • Minnesota
      • Lac qui Parle County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Marietta [Lac qui Parle County].
    • Mississippi
      • Prentiss County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Marietta [Prentiss County].
    • Missouri
      • Holt County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Marietta [Holt County].
    • Nevada
      • Mineral County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Marietta [Mineral County].
    • New York
      • Onondaga County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Marietta [Onondaga County].
    • North Carolina
      • Robeson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Marietta [Robeson County].
    • Ohio
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Marietta [Washington County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Adair County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Marietta [Adair County].
      • Love County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Marietta [Love County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Lancaster County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Marietta [Lancaster County].
    • South Carolina
      • Greenville County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Marietta [Greenville County].
    • South Dakota
      • Fall River County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Marietta [Fall River County].
    • Texas
      • Cass County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Marietta [Cass County].
    • Washington
      • Whatcom County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Marietta [Whatcom County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Marietta ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Marietta:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

More Orphans in  Saline 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 Saline County.

Appen 
ApplevilleLesterville
  
BerwickMariposa
Black WarriorMulberry
Bolund 
Bonnie RidgeOasis
BuchananOban
  
CloverdalePoheta
Covington 
Crown PointRiceville
 Robbins Crossing
DigbyRock Spring
Dighton 
Dry CreekSaline Valley
 Saline
EurekaSpring Creek
 Strickler
Golden Belt Spur 
GranvilleThorp
 Torry
Hallville StationTrigo
Hebron 
HeronWalnut Creek
 Wonderly
Iron Mound 

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 Marietta 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/









 

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