Do you know of Prairie Island ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Prairie Island, so we are uncertain whether Prairie Island is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Prairie Island would be found somewhere in Goodhue County, Minnesota.

More Orphans in Goodhue 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 Goodhue County.

Addington Spur
Aspelund	Holden
Ayr
	Lena
Barr
	Minneola
Cannon Junction
Cannon River Falls	Norway
Cascade
	Spring Creek
Fair Point
Frontenac Station	Trout Brook

Goodhue Centre	West Red Wing

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>	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.