Do you know of Frances ???

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

Our sources for Frances (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 Frances other than they indicate that Frances would be found somewhere in Burleigh County, North Dakota.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1894 and closed  in 1921.

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 Frances ...

We found five communities that share the name Frances.

Within North Dakota, the name Frances is unique.

Beyond North Dakota, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • California
    • Orange County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Frances [Orange County].
  • Indiana
    • Johnson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Frances [Johnson County].
  • Kentucky
    • Crittenden County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Frances [Crittenden County].
  • Ohio
    • Van Wert County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Frances [Van Wert County].
  • Washington
    • Pacific County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Frances [Pacific County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Frances ...

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

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

Rand McNally Map of North Dakota (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Burleigh 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 Burleigh County.