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Do you know of Elkhorn City ???

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

We found mention of Elkhorn City as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Douglas 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.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1857 and closed  in 1884.

Communities Also Named Elkhorn City ...

We found one communities that share the name Elkhorn City.

Within Nebraska, the name Elkhorn City is unique.

Beyond Nebraska, there is another community also named Elkhorn City in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Kentucky
      • Pike County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Elkhorn City [Pike County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Elkhorn City ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

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

More Orphans in  Douglas 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 Douglas County.

Autumn HillsOakchatham
 Old Mill
Benson GardensOmaha Heights
Benson 
 Parkvale
Camoak ParkPrimrose
Crown Point 
 Rawhide
Debolt PlaceRegency
Druid HillRiverside Lakes
Dundee PlaceRoanoke
 Rockbrook
Elmwood ParkRuf
  
Fort OmahaSaddle Creek
FowlerSeymour Park
FoxleySeymour
 South Shore
GibsonStill Meadow
 Summit
KeystoneSunnyslope
  
LawnTomahawk Hills
Lee Valley 
 Underwood Hills
Maple Hill 
Miller'sWalnut Hill
Mount MichaelWeco
MovalWest Benson
 West Dodge
NascoWest Lawn
North OaksWest Omaha
North OmahaWoody
Northwest 
 Yossem's Paradise Valley

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.
<3>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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