Do you know of Vienna ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Vienna. 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 Vienna.
We found mention of Vienna as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Clark County, Kentucky.
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 1863 and closed in 1874.
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 Vienna ...
We found 26 communities that share the name Vienna.
Within Kentucky, the name Vienna is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, we know of another 26 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 26 communities, 25 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Pickens County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Vienna [Pickens County].
- Georgia
- Dooly County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Vienna [Dooly County].
- Idaho
- Vienna #
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Vienna.
- Illinois
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Vienna [Johnson County].
- Indiana
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Vienna [Scott County].
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Lincoln Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Vienna [Lincoln Parish].
- Maine
- Kennebec County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Vienna [Kennebec County].
- Maryland
- Dorchester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Vienna [Dorchester County].
- Michigan
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Vienna [Monroe County].
- Montmorency 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 Michigan community of Vienna [Montmorency County].
- Missouri
- Maries County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Vienna [Maries County].
- New Jersey
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Vienna [Warren County].
- New York
- Oneida County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Vienna [Oneida County].
- North Carolina
- Forsyth County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Vienna [Forsyth County].
- Ohio
- Clark 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 Ohio community of Vienna [Clark County].
- Clinton 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 Ohio community of Vienna [Clinton County].
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Vienna [Harrison County].
- Trumbull County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Vienna [Trumbull County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Vienna.
- Pennsylvania
- South Dakota
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Vienna [Clark County].
- Texas
- Lavaca County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Vienna [Lavaca County].
- Virginia
- Fairfax County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Vienna [Fairfax County].
- West Virginia
- Wood County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Vienna [Wood County].
- Wisconsin
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Vienna ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Vienna:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Clark 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 Clark 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 Vienna 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/ |