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Do you know of Medo ???

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

Our sources for Medo (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 Medo other than they indicate that Medo would be found somewhere in Blue Earth County, Minnesota.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1866 and closed  in 1904.

Communities Also Named Medo ...

We found one communities that share the name Medo.

Within Minnesota, the name Medo is unique.

Beyond Minnesota, there is another community also named Medo in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • West Virginia
      • Fayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Medo [Fayette County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Medo ...

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Blue Earth 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 Blue Earth County.

Bradley'sMadison East
BromlingMankato Junction
Butternut ValleyMaple River
 Minneopa
Castle GardenMyrna
Ceresco 
CrayPerch Lake
 Pleasant Mounds
Danville 
DecoriaRapidan Mills
  
Eagle Lake StationShelbyville
 Sherman
HawkinsSouth Bend
Hill Track 
HopeTivoli
  
IcelandUpton
  
LimeWatters
Little CobbWells Junction
LortzWinnebago Agency
  

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/









 

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