Do you know of Laurel ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Laurel. 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 Laurel.
Our sources for Laurel (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Laurel other than they indicate that Laurel would be found somewhere in Sully County, South Dakota.
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 Laurel ...
We found 40 communities that share the name Laurel.
Within South Dakota, the name Laurel is unique.
Beyond South Dakota, we know of another 40 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 40 communities, 38 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Pope County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Laurel [Pope County].
- California
- Alameda County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Laurel [Alameda County].
- San Mateo County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Laurel [San Mateo County].
- Santa Cruz County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Laurel [Santa Cruz County].
- Delaware
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Laurel [Sussex County].
- Florida
- Sarasota County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Laurel [Sarasota County].
- Indiana
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Laurel [Franklin County].
- Iowa
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Laurel [Marshall County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Greenup 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 Kentucky community of Laurel [Greenup County].
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Laurel [Lawrence County].
- Maryland
- Prince George's County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Laurel [Prince George's County].
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Koochiching County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Laurel [Koochiching County].
- Mississippi
- Jones County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Laurel [Jones County].
- Montana
- Yellowstone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Laurel [Yellowstone County].
- Nebraska
- Cedar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Laurel [Cedar County].
- Nevada
- Humboldt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Laurel [Humboldt County].
- New York
- Suffolk County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Laurel [Suffolk County].
- North Carolina
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Laurel [Franklin County].
- Madison 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 North Carolina community of Laurel [Madison County].
- Ohio
- Clermont County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Laurel [Clermont County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Laurel.
- Oregon
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Laurel [Washington County].
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny 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 Pennsylvania community of Laurel [Allegheny County].
- Chester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Laurel [Chester County].
- Cumberland 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 Pennsylvania community of Laurel [Cumberland County].
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Laurel [York County].
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Laurel.
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Newton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Laurel [Newton County].
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Barbour County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Laurel [Barbour County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Laurel ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Laurel:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Laurel - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Sully 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 Sully County.
| Augusta | Little Bend |
| Brayton | Marston |
| McCamley | |
| Clifton | |
| Ney | |
| Fairbank | Norfolk |
| Fort Sully | |
| Turley | |
| Kaspar | |
| Warnecke | |
| Lewiston | Waterford |
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Laurel 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. |