Do you know of Wheatland ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Wheatland. 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 Wheatland.
We found mention of Wheatland as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Douglas 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 1856 and closed in 1856.
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 Wheatland ...
We found 28 communities that share the name Wheatland.
There are two communities within Kansas that are also named Wheatland.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 26 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 26 communities, 26 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- McPherson County
- Nemaha County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Yuba County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Wheatland [Yuba County].
- Colorado
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Wheatland [Knox County].
- Iowa
- Clinton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Wheatland [Clinton County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Wheatland.
- Michigan
- Hillsdale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Wheatland [Hillsdale County].
- Minnesota
- Rice County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Wheatland [Rice County].
- Missouri
- Hickory County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Wheatland [Hickory County].
- New Jersey
- Ocean County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Wheatland [Ocean County].
- New Mexico
- Quay County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Wheatland [Quay County].
- North Dakota
- Cass County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Wheatland [Cass County].
- Ohio
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Wheatland [Franklin County].
- Oklahoma
- Oklahoma County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Wheatland [Oklahoma County].
- Oregon
- Yamhill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Wheatland [Yamhill County].
- Pennsylvania
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Wheatland.
- Texas
- Dallas 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 Wheatland [Dallas County].
- Hardeman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Wheatland [Hardeman County].
- Tarrant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Wheatland [Tarrant County].
- Wilbarger 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 Texas community of Wheatland [Wilbarger County].
- Virginia
- Loudoun County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Wheatland [Loudoun County].
- West Virginia
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Wheatland [Jefferson County].
- Wisconsin
- Kenosha County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Wheatland [Kenosha County].
- Wyoming
- Platte County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Wheatland [Platte County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wheatland ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Wheatland:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
More Orphans in Douglas 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 Douglas 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Wheatland 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/ |