Welcome to Rising Sun ...

So far, we found very little information about Rising Sun. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Rising Sun to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Rising Sun - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Rising Sun, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Rising Sun , we believe that it would have been located within present day Jefferson County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Rising Sun, you might consider that their post office opened in 1858.

Time Zone: The area where Rising Sun was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities Also Named Rising Sun ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 12 communities that are also named Rising Sun - they are located in Delaware, Illinois (2), Indiana, Iowa, Maryland (2), Mississippi, Montana, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Rising Sun.

Adding Rising Sun to Our Gazetteer ...

As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Rising Sun was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Rising Sun post office opened in 1858.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Rising Sun.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Jefferson County: www.jfcountyks.com/

The official website for State of Kansas: https://portal.kansas.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Rising Sun, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Kansas' counties, including Jefferson, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/