Do you know of Alton ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Alton. 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 Alton.
Our sources for Alton (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 Alton other than they indicate that Alton would be found somewhere in Faribault County, Minnesota.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1876 and closed in 1894.
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 Alton ...
We found 35 communities that share the name Alton.
Within Minnesota, the name Alton is unique.
Beyond Minnesota, we know of another 35 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 35 communities, 33 are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Alton [Jefferson County].
- Arkansas
- Hempstead County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Alton [Hempstead County].
- California
- Humboldt County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Alton [Humboldt County].
- Florida
- Lafayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Alton [Lafayette County].
- Georgia
- Milton 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 Georgia community of Alton [Milton County].
- Tattnall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Alton [Tattnall County].
- Idaho
- Bear Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Alton [Bear Lake County].
- Illinois
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Alton [Madison County].
- Indiana
- Crawford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Alton [Crawford County].
- Iowa
- Sioux County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Alton [Sioux County].
- Kansas
- Lyon 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 Alton [Lyon County].
- Osborne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Alton [Osborne County].
- Sumner 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 Kansas community of Alton [Sumner County].
- Kentucky
- Anderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Alton [Anderson County].
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Penobscot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Alton [Penobscot County].
- Michigan
- Missouri
- Oregon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Alton [Oregon County].
- Montana
- Glacier County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Alton [Glacier County].
- New Hampshire
- Belknap County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Alton [Belknap County].
- New York
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Alton [Wayne County].
- North Carolina
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Alton [Union County].
- North Dakota
- Traill County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Alton [Traill County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Alton.
- Ohio
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Alton [Franklin County].
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Alton [Washington County].
- Texas
- Utah
- Kane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Alton [Kane County].
- Virginia
- Halifax County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Alton [Halifax County].
- West Virginia
- Upshur County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Alton [Upshur County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Alton ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Alton:
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 Alton - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Faribault 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 Faribault County.
| Banks | Ewald |
| Barber | |
| Grapeland | |
| Cornet | |
| Seely | |
| Emerald | |
| Evans | Winnebago City |
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 Alton 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/ |