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Do you know of Burton ???

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

Our sources for Burton (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 Burton other than they indicate that Burton would be found somewhere in Noble County, Oklahoma.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1894 and closed  in 1900.

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 Burton ...

We found 33 communities that share the name Burton.

There is one other community in Oklahoma which is also named Burton.

Beyond Oklahoma, we know of another 32 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 32 communities, 29 are located in the United States and five are in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Oklahoma ...
    • Cimarron County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Burton [Cimarron County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arizona
      • Navajo County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Burton [Navajo County].
    • Arkansas
      • Mississippi County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Burton [Mississippi County].
    • British Columbia
      • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Burton.
    • California
      • Tulare 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 California community of Burton [Tulare County].
    • Georgia
      • Rabun County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Burton [Rabun County].
    • Idaho
      • Madison County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Burton [Madison County].
    • Illinois
      • Adams County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Burton [Adams County].
    • Indiana
      • Lawrence 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 Indiana community of Burton [Lawrence County].
      • Tippecanoe County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Burton [Tippecanoe County].
    • Kentucky
      • Floyd County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Burton [Floyd County].
    • Louisiana
      • Saint James Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Burton [Saint James Parish].
    • Michigan
      • Genesee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Burton [Genesee County].
      • Shiawassee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Burton [Shiawassee County].
    • Mississippi
      • Prentiss County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Burton [Prentiss County].
    • Missouri
      • Howard County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Burton [Howard County].
    • Montana
      • Teton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Burton [Teton County].
    • Nebraska
      • Keya Paha County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Burton [Keya Paha County].
    • New Brunswick
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Burton.
    • North Carolina
      • Durham County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Burton [Durham County].
    • Ohio
      • Geauga County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Burton [Geauga County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Burton.
    • Prince Edward Island
      • Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Burton.
    • South Carolina
      • Beaufort County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Burton [Beaufort County].
    • South Dakota
      • Hanson 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 South Dakota community of Burton [Hanson County].
    • Tennessee
      • Hawkins 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 Tennessee community of Burton [Hawkins County].
      • Putnam County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Burton [Putnam County].
    • Texas
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Burton [Washington County].
    • Utah
      • Salt Lake 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 Utah community of Burton [Salt Lake County].
    • Washington
      • Clark County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Burton [Clark County].
      • King County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Burton [King County].
    • West Virginia
      • Wetzel County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Burton [Wetzel County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Grant County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Burton [Grant County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Burton ...

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

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.


Found a mention of Burton, but no details.

More Orphans in  Noble 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 Noble County.

Asp 
 McKinney
Bliss 
BressiePedee
  
HarpervileTopeka

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 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 Burton 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/









 

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