Do you know of Dillon ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Dillon. 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 Dillon.
Our sources for Dillon (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 Dillon other than they indicate that Dillon would be found somewhere in Muskingum County, Ohio.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1887 and closed in 1908.
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 Dillon ...
We found 23 communities that share the name Dillon.
Within Ohio, the name Dillon is unique.
Beyond Ohio, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 23 communities, 21 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Nevada County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Dillon [Nevada County].
- Colorado
- Summit County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Dillon [Summit County].
- Georgia
- Dade County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Dillon [Dade County].
- Thomas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Dillon [Thomas County].
- Walker County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Dillon [Walker County].
- Illinois
- Tazewell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Dillon [Tazewell County].
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Dillon [Marshall County].
- Kansas
- Dickinson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Dillon [Dickinson County].
- Kentucky
- Harlan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Dillon [Harlan County].
- Mississippi
- Pike County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Dillon [Pike County].
- Walthall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Dillon [Walthall County].
- Missouri
- Phelps County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Dillon [Phelps County].
- Montana
- Beaverhead County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Dillon [Beaverhead County].
- Nevada
- Lander County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Dillon [Lander County].
- New Mexico
- Colfax County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Dillon [Colfax County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Dillon.
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Dillon.
- South Carolina
- Dillon County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Dillon [Dillon County].
- Texas
- Hopkins County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Dillon [Hopkins County].
- Virginia
- Botetourt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Dillon [Botetourt County].
- West Virginia
- Raleigh County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Dillon [Raleigh County].
- Wyoming
- Carbon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Dillon [Carbon County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dillon ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Dillon:
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 Dillon - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Muskingum 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 Muskingum County.
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Dillon 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/ |