Do you know of Brainard ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Brainard. 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 Brainard.<1>

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

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.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1884 and closed in 1887.

Communities Also Named Brainard ...

We found six communities that share the name Brainard.

Within South Dakota, the name Brainard is unique.

Beyond South Dakota, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, five 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 Brainard.
- California
  - Humboldt County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Brainard [Humboldt County].
- Iowa
  - Fayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Brainard [Fayette County].
- Kentucky
  - Floyd County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Brainard [Floyd County].
- Nebraska
  - Butler County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Brainard [Butler County].
- New York
  - Rensselaer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Brainard [Rensselaer County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Brainard ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

More Orphans in Brown 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 Brown County.

Chedi	Moody
Clairmont	Murray

Detroit	Rondell
Dodge
	Santa Clara
Gem	Savo
	Shelby
Lansing
	Yorkville

Footnotes ...

<1>	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.
<2>	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.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/