Do you know of Shannon ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Shannon. 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 Shannon.
We found mention of Shannon as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Riley 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 1855 and closed in 1858.
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 Shannon ...
We found 27 communities that share the name Shannon.
There are two communities within Kansas that are also named Shannon.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 25 communities, 24 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Shannon [Jefferson County].
- Arkansas
- Lincoln 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 Arkansas community of Shannon [Lincoln County].
- Randolph County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Shannon [Randolph County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Shannon.
- California
- Santa Clara County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Shannon [Santa Clara County].
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Shannon [Carroll County].
- Kentucky
- Mason County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Shannon [Mason County].
- Mississippi
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Shannon [Lee County].
- Nevada
- Eureka County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Shannon [Eureka County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Shannon.
- North Carolina
- Robeson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Shannon [Robeson County].
- Ohio
- Coshocton 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 Ohio community of Shannon [Coshocton County].
- Muskingum County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Shannon [Muskingum County].
- Sandusky County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Shannon [Sandusky County].
- Oregon
- Lane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Shannon [Lane County].
- Pennsylvania
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Shannon.
- South Carolina
- Aiken County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Shannon [Aiken County].
- Colleton 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 South Carolina community of Shannon [Colleton County].
- Texas
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Shannon [Clay County].
- Montgomery 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 Texas community of Shannon [Montgomery County].
- West Virginia
- Ohio County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Shannon [Ohio County].
- Wyoming 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 West Virginia community of Shannon [Wyoming County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Shannon ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Shannon:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
More Orphans in Riley 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 Riley 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 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 Shannon 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/ |