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Do you know of Morrill ???

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

Our sources for Morrill (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 Morrill other than they indicate that Morrill would be found somewhere in Potter County, South Dakota.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1886 and closed  in 1892.

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 Morrill ...

We found six communities that share the name Morrill.

Within South Dakota, the name Morrill is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Kansas
      • Brown County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Morrill [Brown County].
    • Kentucky
      • Jackson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Morrill [Jackson County].
    • Maine
      • Waldo County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Morrill [Waldo County].
    • Minnesota
      • Morrison County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Morrill [Morrison County].
    • Nebraska
      • Scotts Bluff County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Morrill [Scotts Bluff County].
    • Texas
      • Cherokee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Morrill [Cherokee County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Morrill ...

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

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Morrill - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Potter 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 Potter County.

AppomattoxPembroke
 Potter
Copp 
 Springs
Mann 
 Welland

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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