Do you know of Saint George ???

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

We found mention of Saint George as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in McLeod County, Minnesota.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1870 and closed in 1881.

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 Saint George ...

We found 24 communities that share the name Saint George.

There is one other community in Minnesota which is also named Saint George.

Beyond Minnesota, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 23 communities, 21 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Located In Minnesota ...
- Nicollet County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Saint George [Nicollet County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alaska
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Saint George.
- Delaware
  - Sussex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Saint George [Sussex County].
- Florida
  - Broward County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Saint George [Broward County].
  - Pinellas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Saint George [Pinellas County].
- Georgia
  - Charlton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Saint George [Charlton County].
- Illinois
  - Kankakee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Saint George [Kankakee County].
- Indiana
  - Vanderburgh County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Saint George [Vanderburgh County].
- Kansas
  - Pottawatomie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Saint George [Pottawatomie County].
- Maine
  - Knox County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Saint George [Knox County].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Saint George.
- Missouri
  - Saint Louis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Saint George [Saint Louis County].
  - Wright County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Saint George [Wright County].
- Nevada
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Saint George [Lincoln County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Saint George.
- New York
  - Richmond County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Saint George [Richmond County].
- North Dakota
  - LaMoure County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Saint George [LaMoure County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Saint George.
- Pennsylvania
  - Venango County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Saint George [Venango County].
- South Carolina
  - Dorchester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Saint George [Dorchester County].
- Utah
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Saint George [Washington County].
- Virginia
  - Greene County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Saint George [Greene County].
- West Virginia
  - Tucker County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Saint George [Tucker County].
- Wisconsin
  - Sheboygan County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Saint George [Sheboygan County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Saint George ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

More Orphans in McLeod 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 McLeod County.

Lake Addie	Winsted Lake

Silver Lake Station

Footnotes ...

<1>

If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Saint George could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.

<2>

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

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