Do you know of Rail Prairie ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Rail Prairie. 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 Rail Prairie.<1>
Our sources for Rail Prairie (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 Rail Prairie other than they indicate that Rail Prairie would be found somewhere in Morrison County, Minnesota.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 and closed in 1910.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rail Prairie ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Rail Prairie:
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 Rail Prairie - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Morrison 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 Morrison County.
| Camp Ripley | LaFond |
| Culdrum | Ledoux |
| Curtis | |
| Pike Rapids | |
| Dixville | |
| Rich Prairie | |
| Flynn | Rothwell |
| Gilbert | Stroman |
| Gravelville | Swan River |
| Green Prairie | |
| Topeka | |
| Huff | Two Rivers |
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/ |