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Do you know of Silica ???

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

We found mention of Silica as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Phillips 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 1887 and closed  in 1890.

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 Silica ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Silica.

There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Silica.

Beyond Kansas, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, ten are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Kansas ...
    • Rice County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Silica [Rice County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • British Columbia
      • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Silica.
    • Kentucky
      • Carter County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Silica [Carter County].
    • Minnesota
      • Saint Louis County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Silica [Saint Louis County].
    • Missouri
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Silica [Jefferson County].
    • Ohio
      • Lucas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Silica [Lucas County].
    • South Carolina
      • Lexington 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 Silica [Lexington County].
    • Tennessee
      • Campbell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Silica [Campbell County].
    • Virginia
      • Scott County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Silica [Scott County].
    • West Virginia
      • Randolph County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Silica [Randolph County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Fond du Lac County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Silica [Fond du Lac County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Silica ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Silica:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

More Orphans in  Phillips 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 Phillips County.

AledoMatteson
 Mound
BentonMount Zion
Big BendMyrtle
Bloomfield 
BontonNance
Bow CreekNew Hope
 Norman
Coyote 
CrowOsma
  
DeaversvillePleasant Green
DickeyvillePlum Creek
 Plumb Creek
EmvillePomeroy
 Powell
Fredericksburg 
 Saraville
GermantownSeaversville
GoodeSedan
Granite BluffSpring Valley
 Stockade
Heisler 
 Truesdell
Iowa UnionTuck
  
JimtownUpton
  
KildareWagnerville
KydWest Cedar
 West Union
LeeWilton
LuctorWitton
 Worthen

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 Silica 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/









 

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