Do you know of Grand Prairie ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Grand Prairie. 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 Grand Prairie.

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

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 1843 and closed  in 1855.

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 Grand Prairie ...

We found five communities that share the name Grand Prairie.

Within Ohio, the name Grand Prairie is unique.

Beyond Ohio, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Illinois
    • Will County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Grand Prairie [Will County].
  • Kansas
    • Brown County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Grand Prairie [Brown County].
  • Louisiana
    • Plaquemines Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Grand Prairie [Plaquemines Parish].
    • Saint Landry Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Grand Prairie [Saint Landry Parish].
  • Texas
    • Dallas County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Grand Prairie [Dallas County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Grand Prairie ...

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

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in  Marion 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 Marion County.