Do you know of South Park ???

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

Our sources for South Park (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 South Park other than they indicate that South Park would be found somewhere in Johnson County, Kansas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 and closed in 1894.

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 South Park ...

We found 27 communities that share the name South Park.

There is one other community in Kansas which is also named South Park.

Beyond Kansas, we know of another 26 communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Wyandotte 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 Kansas community of South Park [Wyandotte County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Tuscaloosa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of South Park [Tuscaloosa County].
- California
  - 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 South Park [Los Angeles County].
  - Riverside County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of South Park [Riverside County].
  - San Diego County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of South Park [San Diego County].
  - Sonoma County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of South Park [Sonoma County].
- Illinois
  - Cook 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 Illinois community of South Park [Cook County].
  - Kane County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of South Park [Kane County].
- Indiana
  - Kosciusko County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of South Park [Kosciusko County].
- Kentucky
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of South Park [Jefferson County].
- Louisiana
  - Caddo Parish
  - 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 Louisiana community of South Park [Caddo Parish].
  - Rapides Parish
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of South Park [Rapides Parish].
- Michigan
  - Saint Clair County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of South Park [Saint Clair County].
- Minnesota
  - Dakota 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 Minnesota community of South Park [Dakota County].
- New Jersey
  - Burlington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of South Park [Burlington County].
- New York
  - Erie 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 New York community of South Park [Erie County].
- Ohio
  - Cuyahoga 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 South Park [Cuyahoga County].
  - Montgomery County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of South Park [Montgomery County].
  - Wyandot County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of South Park [Wyandot County].
- South Carolina
  - Darlington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of South Park [Darlington County].
  - Florence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of South Park [Florence County].
- Texas
  - Harris 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 South Park [Harris County].
- Washington
  - King County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of South Park [King County].
- West Virginia
  - Kanawha County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of South Park [Kanawha County].
  - Lewis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of South Park [Lewis County].
  - Monongalia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of South Park [Monongalia County].
- Wyoming
  - Teton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of South Park [Teton County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for South Park ...

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

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 South Park - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

Rand McNally Map of Kansas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for South Park.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 20/66825 (Place Name: South Park)

County: Johnson (FIPS State/County: 20/091)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- South Park) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in Johnson 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 Johnson County.

Allendale	Little Santa Fe
Alta	Lone Elm

Baptist Mission	McCamish
Bartleson	Meadow Brook
Belevue	Midway
Big Blue City	Mission Highlands
Big Bull	Missouri City
Black Bob	Missouriana
Blue Jackets Town	Monrovia
Brookridge	Morrison Ridge
Bull Creek	Moss
Burgess	Mount Auburn
	Mount Moriah
Cambridge
Campbellton	New Century
Caravan Grove	New Santa Fe
Cedar Junction
Cedar Station	Olantha
Chillicothe	Olathe Park
Chilton	Oxford
Clarksville
Corliss	Phila
Crozier	Pioneer
Cunningham Highlands	Pleasant View
	Princeton
DeSoto Junction	Province Village
Dobson
	Quaker Mission
Elizabeth	Quivira Lake
Elizabethtown
Elm Grove	Red Clover
	Romance
Gardner Lake
Gleed	Saint Leander
Glen Arbor	Schaerfftown
Glenn	Shawnee Mission
Goodman	Shawneetown
Green Springs	Sherman
	Snake Den
Haysville	Southwest Gardens
Hector
Hocker Grove	Tower Grove
Hopewell	Turpinville
	Tuscarona Lake
Indian Creek
	Uniontown
Jerusaleam
	Weirs
Lexington	Wier's Station
Little Bull

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 South Park 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/