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Do you know of Verdi ???

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

We found mention of Verdi as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Wilson 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 1868 and closed  in 1876.

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 Verdi ...

We found eight communities that share the name Verdi.

There are two communities within Kansas that are also named Verdi.

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

  • Communities Located In Kansas ...
    • Greenwood 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 Verdi [Greenwood County].
    • Ottawa County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Verdi [Ottawa County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Iowa
      • Washington 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 Iowa community of Verdi [Washington County].
    • Minnesota
      • Lincoln County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Verdi [Lincoln County].
    • Nevada
      • Washoe County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Verdi [Washoe County].
    • Tennessee
      • Cumberland 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 Tennessee community of Verdi [Cumberland County].
    • Texas
      • Atascosa County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Verdi [Atascosa County].
    • Virginia
      • Scott County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Verdi [Scott County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Verdi ...

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Wilson 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 Wilson County.

Barrett's HillLazarus
Brazel 
 Morgan Valley
CentervilleMosley's Ferry
Cho-oningMound Springs
Clarke 
CliftonNewark
ColfaxNorth Altoona
Cordley 
CoysSexton
 Sherman
DildineStella
DillSyracuse
Dun 
 Tallyrand
GeddesburgTonsa
GrantTwin Mounds
Greystone 
 Union Center
Jackson's Mills 
JurettWard
 Wilson Creek

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Verdi 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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