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Do you know of Burau ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Burau. 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 Burau.<1>

Our sources for Burau (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 Burau other than they indicate that Burau would be found somewhere in Wilkin County, Minnesota.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1887 and closed  in 1905.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Burau ...

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

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 Burau - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Wilkin 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 Wilkin County.

Aberdeen Line JunctionJacksville
  
DibleyManston
  
ElliotWatasco
  

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/