Do you know of Greenland ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Greenland. 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 Greenland.
We found mention of Greenland as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Boone County, Missouri.
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 1860 and closed in 1871.
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 Greenland ...
We found nineteen communities that share the name Greenland.
Within Missouri, the name Greenland is unique.
Beyond Missouri, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Greenland [Washington County].
- Colorado
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Greenland [Douglas County].
- Florida
- Duval County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Greenland [Duval County].
- Illinois
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Greenland [Fayette County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Greenland.
- Maryland
- Wicomico County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Greenland [Wicomico County].
- Michigan
- Ontonagon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Greenland [Ontonagon County].
- Minnesota
- Le Sueur County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Greenland [Le Sueur County].
- Mississippi
- Newton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Greenland [Newton County].
- New Hampshire
- Rockingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Greenland [Rockingham County].
- New Jersey
- Camden County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Greenland [Camden County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Greenland.
- Ohio
- Ross County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Greenland [Ross County].
- Pennsylvania
- Lancaster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Greenland [Lancaster County].
- South Carolina
- Barnwell County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Greenland [Barnwell County].
- Tennessee
- Hawkins County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Greenland [Hawkins County].
- West Virginia
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Greenland [Grant County].
- Wood 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 West Virginia community of Greenland [Wood County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Greenland ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Greenland:
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 Boone 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 Boone County.
| Alva | |
| Persinger | |
| Bourbonton | |
| Brown's Station | Vertagreen |
| Etta | Youngers |
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Greenland 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/ |