Do you know of Munson ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Munson. 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 Munson.
Our sources for Munson (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 Munson other than they indicate that Munson would be found somewhere in Rowan County, Kentucky.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 and closed in 1914.
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 Munson ...
We found eleven communities that share the name Munson.
Within Kentucky, the name Munson is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, ten are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Munson.
- Florida
- Santa Rosa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Munson [Santa Rosa County].
- Illinois
- La Salle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Munson [La Salle County].
- Kansas
- Morris County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Munson [Morris County].
- Michigan
- Lenawee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Munson [Lenawee County].
- Mississippi
- Attala County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Munson [Attala County].
- Ohio
- Oregon
- Linn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Munson [Linn County].
- Pennsylvania
- Clearfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Munson [Clearfield County].
- Texas
- Rockwall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Munson [Rockwall County].
- West Virginia
- Alberta
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Munson ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Munson:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Munson - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Kentucky (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Rowan 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 Rowan County.
| Bailey | Lacy |
| Cooper's | Mizpah |
| Crix | |
| Pekin | |
| Dickson | Pine Springs |
| Eadston | Rockville |
| Egypt | Rodbourn |
| Farmer | Vale |
| Fraley | |
| Freestone | Wagner |
| Woodland |
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 Munson 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/ |