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Do you know of Wilsonville (aka 'Wilson's Station') ???

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

We found mention of Wilsonville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Cherokee 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 1884 and closed  in 1885.

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 Wilsonville ...

We found 21 communities that share the name Wilsonville.

There are three communities within Kansas that are also named Wilsonville.

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

  • Communities Located In Kansas ...
    • Allen 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 Wilsonville [Allen County].
    • Bourbon 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 Wilsonville [Bourbon County].
    • Shawnee 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 Wilsonville [Shawnee County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Shelby County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Wilsonville [Shelby County].
    • Connecticut
      • Windham County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Wilsonville [Windham County].
    • Georgia
      • Coffee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Wilsonville [Coffee County].
    • Illinois
      • Macoupin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Wilsonville [Macoupin County].
    • Iowa
      • Van Buren 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 Wilsonville [Van Buren County].
    • Kentucky
      • Boyle County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Wilsonville [Boyle County].
      • Spencer County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Wilsonville [Spencer County].
    • Missouri
      • Iron County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Wilsonville [Iron County].
    • Nebraska
      • Furnas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Wilsonville [Furnas County].
    • North Carolina
      • Chatham County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Wilsonville [Chatham County].
      • Lincoln County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Wilsonville [Lincoln County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Wilsonville.
    • Oregon
      • Clackamas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Wilsonville [Clackamas County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Pike County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Wilsonville [Pike County].
    • South Carolina
      • Charleston County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Wilsonville [Charleston County].
    • Tennessee
      • Cocke County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Wilsonville [Cocke County].
    • Utah
      • Emery County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Wilsonville [Emery County].
    • Virginia
      • Highland 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 Virginia community of Wilsonville [Highland County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wilsonville ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Cherokee 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 Cherokee County.

AllingtonKark
 Kniveton
Battle Corners 
BaxterLadoga
BeaumontLea Walk
BonanzaLewiston
Boston HillsLivingston
Boston MillsLola
BridlongLostine
Broylis Ferry 
BrushvilleMesser
BudlongMillersburg
 Mineral
CarlingMonarch
CenterMonmouth
Central City 
CentraliaNeosho
ChenneyvilleNeutral City
Cherokee CityNeutral Station
Cherokee MoundNew Memphis
CherryNewcastle
Chico 
ClarksvilleOakland
CloudOld Rock
Collinsville 
ColumbiaPeacock
CornwallPittsville
CortingPitzerville
Crawford SeminaryPleasant View
  
Dry CreekQuapaw Reservation
 Quapaw Strip
Eagle 
Empire JunctionRed Bud
 Ross
Favor 
Fly CreekSalamanca
FolsomSanfordville
Free PointShort Creek
FriendshipSpring City
FruitlandSpring Grove
 Springdale
GlendaleSpringfield
Grand FallsState Line
 Stilson
Hartsville 
HickmanTehama
  
JacksonvilleWalnut Creek
JarrettWilson
  

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 Wilsonville 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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