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Do you know of Cannon ball ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cannon ball. 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 Cannon ball.

Our sources for Cannon ball (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 Cannon ball other than they indicate that Cannon ball would be found somewhere in Morton County, North Dakota.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1889 and closed  in 1915.

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 Cannon ball ...

We found one communities that share the name Cannon ball.

There is one other community in North Dakota which is also named Cannon ball.

Beyond North Dakota.

  • Communities Located In North Dakota ...
    • Sioux County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Cannon ball [Sioux County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cannon ball ...

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

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Cannon ball - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Morton 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 Morton County.

Burgess 
 Knife River
ConohoKurtz
Curlew 
 Little Heart
Duke Spur 
 Marmot
Fort Abraham Lincoln 
 Sedalia
InverlacSunnyside

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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