Do you know of Pioneer ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Pioneer. 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 Pioneer.
Our sources for Pioneer (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Pioneer other than they indicate that Pioneer would be found somewhere in Rush County, Kansas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1878 and closed in 1893.
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 Pioneer ...
We found 35 communities that share the name Pioneer.
There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Pioneer.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 34 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Pickens County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Pioneer [Pickens County].
- Arizona
- California
- Amador County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Pioneer [Amador County].
- Los Angeles 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 Pioneer [Los Angeles County].
- Siskiyou County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Pioneer [Siskiyou County].
- Illinois
- Peoria County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Pioneer [Peoria County].
- Indiana
- Wabash County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Pioneer [Wabash County].
- Iowa
- Humboldt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Pioneer [Humboldt County].
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- West Carroll Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Pioneer [West Carroll Parish].
- Michigan
- Missaukee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Pioneer [Missaukee County].
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Barry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Pioneer [Barry County].
- Montana
- Beaverhead County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Pioneer [Beaverhead County].
- Powell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Pioneer [Powell County].
- Silver Bow County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Pioneer [Silver Bow County].
- Yellowstone 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 Montana community of Pioneer [Yellowstone County].
- Nevada
- Nye County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Pioneer [Nye County].
- New Mexico
- New York
- Ohio
- Oregon
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Pioneer [Lincoln County].
- Multnomah 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 Oregon community of Pioneer [Multnomah County].
- Pennsylvania
- Venango County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Pioneer [Venango County].
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Campbell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Pioneer [Campbell County].
- Texas
- Eastland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Pioneer [Eastland County].
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Pioneer [Salt Lake County].
- Washington
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pioneer ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Pioneer:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Pioneer - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Rush 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 Rush 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 Pioneer 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/ |