Do you know of Vian ???

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

Our sources for Vian (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 Vian other than they indicate that Vian would be found somewhere in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1892 and closed  in 1905.

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 Vian ...

We found one communities that share the name Vian.

Within Pennsylvania, the name Vian is unique.

Beyond Pennsylvania, there is another community also named Vian in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Oklahoma
    • Sequoyah County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Vian [Sequoyah County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Vian ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Dauphin 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 Dauphin County.