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Do you know of Darien ???

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

We found mention of Darien as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Clark 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 1888.

Communities Also Named Darien ...

We found seven communities that share the name Darien.

Within South Dakota, the name Darien is unique.

Beyond South Dakota, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Connecticut
      • Fairfield County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Darien [Fairfield County].
    • Georgia
      • McIntosh County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Darien [McIntosh County].
    • Illinois
      • DuPage County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Darien [DuPage County].
    • Kansas
      • Cowley County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Darien [Cowley County].
    • Missouri
      • Dent County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Darien [Dent County].
    • New York
      • Genesee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Darien [Genesee County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Walworth County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Darien [Walworth County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Darien ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Clark 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 Clark County.

Degbert 
 Talcott
Ellsworth 
 Vandervoort
Golden 
 Warren
SherwoodWoodland

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/