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Do you know of LaFond ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about LaFond. 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 LaFond.

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1883 and closed  in 1887.

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 LaFond ...

We found one communities that share the name LaFond.

Within Minnesota, the name LaFond is unique.

Beyond Minnesota, there is another community also named LaFond in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alberta
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of LaFond.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for LaFond ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for LaFond - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned

More Orphans in  Morrison 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 Morrison County.

Camp Ripley 
CuldrumPike Rapids
Curtis 
 Rail Prairie
FlynnRich Prairie
 Rothwell
Gilbert 
GravelvilleStroman
Green PrairieSwan River
  
HuffTopeka
 Two Rivers
Ledoux 

Footnotes ...

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

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









 

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