Do you know of Vidette ???

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

Our sources for Vidette (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 Vidette other than they indicate that Vidette would be found somewhere in Shawnee County, Kansas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1885 and closed  in 1898.

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 Vidette ...

We found four communities that share the name Vidette.

Within Kansas, the name Vidette is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Alabama
    • Crenshaw County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Vidette [Crenshaw County].
  • Arkansas
    • Fulton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Vidette [Fulton County].
  • British Columbia
    • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Vidette.
  • Georgia
    • Burke County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Vidette [Burke County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Vidette ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Vidette - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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.