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Do you know of Blue Island ???

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

We found mention of Blue Island as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Saline County, Nebraska.

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 1868 and closed  in 1873.

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 Blue Island ...

We found one communities that share the name Blue Island.

Within Nebraska, the name Blue Island is unique.

Beyond Nebraska, there is another community also named Blue Island in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Illinois
      • Cook County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Blue Island [Cook County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Blue Island ...

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Blue Island was listed as Blue Island Courthouse.

More Orphans in  Saline 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 Saline County.

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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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