Do you know of Sleeper ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1904 and closed  in 1916.

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 Sleeper ...

We found one communities that share the name Sleeper.

Within Oklahoma, the name Sleeper is unique.

Beyond Oklahoma, there is another community also named Sleeper in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Missouri
    • Laclede County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Sleeper [Laclede County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sleeper ...

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

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

Rand McNally Map of Oklahoma (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Cherokee County ...

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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 Cherokee County.