Do you know of Savannah ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Savannah. 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 Savannah.
Our sources for Savannah (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 Savannah other than they indicate that Savannah would be found somewhere in Pottawatomie County, Kansas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1867 and closed in 1878.
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 Savannah ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Savannah.
There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Savannah.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Los Angeles County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Savannah [Los Angeles County].
- Georgia
- Chatham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Savannah [Chatham County].
- Iowa
- Davis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Savannah [Davis County].
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Pearl River County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Savannah [Pearl River County].
- Missouri
- Andrew County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Savannah [Andrew County].
- Nebraska
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Savannah [Butler County].
- New York
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Savannah [Wayne County].
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Ashland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Savannah [Ashland County].
- Tennessee
- Hardin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Savannah [Hardin County].
- Texas
- Red River County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Savannah [Red River County].
- Virginia
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Savannah ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Savannah:
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 Savannah - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Rand McNally Map of Kansas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Pottawatomie 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 Pottawatomie 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 Savannah 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/ |