Do you know of Lorraine ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lorraine. 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 Lorraine.
Our sources for Lorraine (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 Lorraine other than they indicate that Lorraine would be found somewhere in Dickey County, North Dakota.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1884 and closed in 1904.
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 Lorraine ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Lorraine.
Within North Dakota, the name Lorraine is unique.
Beyond North Dakota, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Butte County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Lorraine [Butte County].
- Florida
- Manatee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Lorraine [Manatee County].
- Kansas
- Ellsworth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lorraine [Ellsworth County].
- Louisiana
- Missouri
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Lorraine [Harrison County].
- Nebraska
- Banner County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Lorraine [Banner County].
- New Jersey
- New York
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Lorraine [Jefferson County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Lorraine.
- Pennsylvania
- Schuylkill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Lorraine [Schuylkill County].
- Quebec
- Tennessee
- Rhea County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Lorraine [Rhea County].
- Virginia
- Henrico County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Lorraine [Henrico County].
- West Virginia
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lorraine ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lorraine:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Lorraine - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of North Dakota (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Dickey 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 Dickey County.
| Crescent Hill | Riverdale |
| Hillsdale | Westboro |
| Wright | |
| Monango Crossing | |
| Yorktown |
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Lorraine 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/ |