Do you know of Balls Crossing ???

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

Our source wasn't clear whether Balls Crossing was 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 Balls Crossing would be found somewhere in Flathead County, Montana.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Balls Crossing ...

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

North American Railroad Atlas - Mountain Plains
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2000
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Balls Crossing.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 30/03700 (Place Name: Balls Crossing)

County: Flathead (FIPS State/County: 30/029)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Balls Crossing) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Flathead 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 Flathead County.

Belton	Mock

Columbia Heights	Paola
	Pleasant Valley
Happy Valley
	Red Eagle
Java
	Summit Depot

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.