Do you know of Pilot Knob ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Pilot Knob, so we are uncertain whether Pilot Knob is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Pilot Knob would be found somewhere in Leavenworth County, Kansas.

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 Pilot Knob ...

We found nine communities that share the name Pilot Knob.

There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Pilot Knob.

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

Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Harper 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 Pilot Knob [Harper County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - San Diego 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 California community of Pilot Knob [San Diego County].
- Indiana
  - Crawford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Pilot Knob [Crawford County].
- Missouri
  - Iron County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Pilot Knob [Iron County].
- New York
  - Warren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Pilot Knob [Warren County].
- Tennessee
  - Greene County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Pilot Knob [Greene County].
  - Sumner 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 Tennessee community of Pilot Knob [Sumner County].
- Texas
  - Travis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Pilot Knob [Travis County].
- Wisconsin
  - Adams County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Pilot Knob [Adams County].

More Orphans in Leavenworth County ...

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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 Leavenworth County.

Ackerland	Merritt
Alexandria	Miocene
Alfa	Moore's Summit
	Moore's
Bastion	Moravian Mission
Bell	Mount Aurora
Boling	Mount Olive
Bonner	Mount Olivet
Briggsvale
	Neeley
Center	Newcastle
Centerville	Nuato
Cincinnati
Clarksville	Ogdenburg
Clementville	Ole

Dafer	Penitentiary Station
Daisy	Pensenaus Landing
Dawson's Ford	Pensineau
Delaware Crossing	Petersburg
Drydale	Pleasant Lodge
	Pleasant Ridge
East Leavenworth	Pope
Edminister	Progress
Eight Mile House
Evanston	Rapps Mills
	Renco
Fairholme	Rively's Trading Post
Fall	Riverside
Fort Leavenworth	Ross

Greenbush	Salem
	Salt Creek
Half Way House	Sarcoxie
Hardville	Seuferts
Harkiness	Sherman
Hastingsville	Somerville
Hawk Hollow	South Leavenworth
High Prairie	Spring Valley
Honey Valley	Standish
Hund's Station	Stanley's
	Stanwood
Jaggard	Steuben
Jay	Stranger Valley
Junction	Stranger Village
	Summerville
Kanzas Jesuit Mission	Summit
Kickapoo Methodist Mission
	Uniontown
Lattaville	Usher
Lebreton
	Wade
Marburg	Weimar
Maria	Wilson's Trading Post
Martensburg	Wimir
Martinsburg	Wymer
Mason Ford

Footnotes ...

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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 Pilot Knob 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.