Do you know of Big Stone City ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Big Stone City. 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 Big Stone City.

Our sources for Big Stone City (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Big Stone City other than they indicate that Big Stone City would be found somewhere in Big Stone County, Minnesota.

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 Big Stone City ...

We found one communities that share the name Big Stone City.

Within Minnesota, the name Big Stone City is unique.

Beyond Minnesota, there is another community also named Big Stone City in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • South Dakota
    • Grant County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Big Stone City [Grant County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Big Stone City ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Big Stone City - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

The FIPS database contains an entry for Big Stone City.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 27/05806   (Place Name: Big Stone City)

County: Big Stone     (FIPS State/County: 27/011)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- Big Stone City) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in  Big Stone County ...

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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 Big Stone County.