Do you know of South Pass ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about South Pass. 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 South Pass.<1>
We found mention of South Pass as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Lancaster 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 1869 and closed in 1872.
Communities Also Named South Pass ...
We found one communities that share the name South Pass.
Within Nebraska, the name South Pass is unique.
Beyond Nebraska, there is another community also named South Pass in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Louisiana
- Plaquemines Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of South Pass [Plaquemines Parish].
- Louisiana
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for South Pass ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about South Pass:
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 Lancaster 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 Lancaster County.
| Arnold Heights | Little Salt |
| Bethany Heights | Mayville |
| Middle Creek | |
| Centreville | Millville |
| Cobb | |
| Crounse | Noblesville |
| Garratt | Olive Branch |
| Hyersville | Pecks Grove |
| Linpark | Tipton |
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/ |