Do you know of Little Prairie ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Little 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 Little Prairie.

We found mention of Little Prairie as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Crawford 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 1836 and closed  in 1860.

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 Little Prairie ...

We found five communities that share the name Little Prairie.

There is one other community in Missouri which is also named Little Prairie.

Beyond Missouri, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, four are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

• Communities Located In Missouri ...
  • Phelps County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Little Prairie [Phelps County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arkansas
    • Lee County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Little Prairie [Lee County].
  • British Columbia
    • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Little Prairie.
  • Louisiana
    • Ascension Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Little Prairie [Ascension Parish].
  • Wisconsin
    • Walworth County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Little Prairie [Walworth County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Little Prairie ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in  Crawford 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 Crawford County.