Do you know of Hanna ???

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

Our sources for Hanna (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 Hanna other than they indicate that Hanna would be found somewhere in Scioto County, Ohio.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1894 and closed in 1902.

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 Hanna ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Hanna.

Within Ohio, the name Hanna is unique.

Beyond Ohio, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Hanna.
- Arkansas
  - Chicot County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Hanna [Chicot County].
- Colorado
  - Rio Grande County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Hanna [Rio Grande County].
- Illinois
  - Peoria 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 Illinois community of Hanna [Peoria County].
- Indiana
  - LaPorte County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Hanna [LaPorte County].
- Iowa
  - Kossuth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Hanna [Kossuth County].
- Louisiana
  - Red River Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Hanna [Red River Parish].
- Missouri
  - Pulaski County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Hanna [Pulaski County].
- New York
  - Tioga 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 New York community of Hanna [Tioga County].
- Oklahoma
  - McIntosh County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Hanna [McIntosh County].
- South Dakota
  - Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Hanna [Lawrence County].
- Utah
  - Duchesne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Hanna [Duchesne County].
- West Virginia
  - Wood County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Hanna [Wood County].
- Wyoming
  - Carbon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Hanna [Carbon County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hanna ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

George#&160;F. Cram Map (1901)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Appalachia & Piedmont
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in Scioto 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 Scioto County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Hanna 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/