Do you know of Adrian ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Adrian. 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 Adrian.
Our sources for Adrian (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 Adrian other than they indicate that Adrian would be found somewhere in McCracken County, Kentucky.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1899 and closed in 1904.
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 Adrian ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Adrian.
Within Kentucky, the name Adrian is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, eighteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
In addition to the above occurrences of Adrian, we know of two communities located outside of the United States and Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
- Summit County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Adrian [Summit County].
- Georgia
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Adrian [Johnson County].
- Illinois
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Adrian [Hancock County].
- Kansas
- Michigan
- Lenawee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Adrian [Lenawee County].
- Minnesota
- Nobles County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Adrian [Nobles County].
- Missouri
- Bates County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Adrian [Bates County].
- Nebraska
- Keya Paha County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Adrian [Keya Paha County].
- New York
- Steuben County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Adrian [Steuben County].
- North Dakota
- LaMoure County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Adrian [LaMoure County].
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Oregon
- Malheur County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Adrian [Malheur County].
- Pennsylvania
- Armstrong County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Adrian [Armstrong County].
- South Carolina
- Horry County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Adrian [Horry County].
- Texas
- Oldham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Adrian [Oldham County].
- Washington
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Adrian [Grant County].
- West Virginia
- Upshur County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Adrian [Upshur County].
- Colorado
- Communities Beyond North America ...
- Romania
- - Satu Mare
- We haven't found the location of this Adrian
- - Mures
- We haven't found the location of this Adrian
- Romania
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Adrian ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Adrian:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
George#&160;F. Cram Map (1905)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.
More Orphans in McCracken 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 McCracken County.
| Avondale | |
| Norton's Bluff | |
| Bonds | |
| Ramsey | |
| Florence Station | Rowland |
| Florence | Rye |
| Forrestdale | |
| Fremont | Spring Bayou |
| Stiles | |
| Lawton's Bluff | |
| Tipple | |
| Maxon's Mills | |
| Milan | Woodlawn - Oakdale |
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 Adrian 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/ |