Do you know of Sumner City ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Sumner City. 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 Sumner City.<1>

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Sumner City, so we are uncertain whether Sumner City is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Sumner City would be found somewhere in Shawnee County, Kansas.

More Orphans in Shawnee County ...

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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 Shawnee County.

American Chiefs Village	Lynn Creek
Arlington Heights
Auburndale	Mairestown
Avoca	Massasoit
	Mazell
Baptist Mission	Mission
Bishop	Monique
Blackfau	Monmouth
Blacksmith	Muddy Creek
Boyer
Brownville	Northern Hills
Burnett
Burnett's Cabin	Paris
Burnett's Mound	Pottawatomie Baptist Mission
Buzzard Town	Pottawatomie Catholic Mission
	Prairie City
Calhoun
Canema	Redmondville
Carthage	Redpath
Center Grove	Richardson
Central Grove	Ridgeway
Challenders	Rochester
Chapman's	Rock Creek
Chaumiere
Chicago Heights	Sanford
Cottonwood Grove	Sawour
Cross Creek	Seabrook
	Sharon
Dayton	Shawnee Center
Delaware City	Shawnee Corner
Disney	Shields
Doel	Shorey
	South Tecumseh
East Forbes	South Topeka
Edna	Spencerville
Essex	State House
Esther	Stinson's
Exeter Park	Stockade
	Swinburn
Fool Chief Village
Forbes Field	Tevis
Fremont	Tokalon Heights
	Trenton
Gage Center	Trunau
Glendale	Twin Mound
Grand Haven
Gumithorne	Uniontown
	Urbana
Hard Chiefs Village
Hartford Station	Valley Town
Hicrest	Valley
Hughes Park	Vidette
Hygienic
	Wagner
Indian Valley	Wah-Wah-Suk
Indianola	Walter
	Wanamaker
Jefferson	Washington
	Waship
Kansapolis	Wau-Wau-Suk
Kaw Methodist Mission	Waveland
Kilmer	Websters Peak
Kingston	Westboro
Kingsville	Whitefield
	Whitfield
Lakeshore	Wilsonville
Leaderville	Wyoming
Loring

Footnotes ...

<1>	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.
<2>	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.