Do you know of Underwood ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Underwood. 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 Underwood.
We found mention of Underwood as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Doniphan 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 1882 and closed in 1882.
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 Underwood ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Underwood.
There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Underwood.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, nineteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Independence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Underwood [Independence County].
- Georgia
- Baldwin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Underwood [Baldwin County].
- Indiana
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Underwood [Clark County].
- Iowa
- Pottawattamie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Underwood [Pottawattamie County].
- Maryland
- Saint Mary's County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Underwood [Saint Mary's County].
- Michigan
- Alger 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 Michigan community of Underwood [Alger County].
- Ingham 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 Michigan community of Underwood [Ingham County].
- Minnesota
- Otter Tail County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Underwood [Otter Tail County].
- Nebraska
- Hall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Underwood [Hall County].
- New York
- Essex County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Underwood [Essex County].
- North Dakota
- McLean County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Underwood [McLean County].
- Ontario
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Hale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Underwood [Hale County].
- Washington
- Skamania County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Underwood [Skamania County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Underwood ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Underwood:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
More Orphans in Doniphan 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 Doniphan 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 Underwood 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/ |