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Do you know of Saint Ansgar ???

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

We found mention of Saint Ansgar 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 1883 and closed  in 1887.

Communities Also Named Saint Ansgar ...

We found one communities that share the name Saint Ansgar.

Within South Dakota, the name Saint Ansgar is unique.

Beyond South Dakota, there is another community also named Saint Ansgar in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Iowa
      • Mitchell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Saint Ansgar [Mitchell County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Saint Ansgar ...

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

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.

Brainard 
 Moody
ChediMurray
Clairmont 
 Rondell
Detroit 
DodgeSanta Clara
 Savo
GemShelby
  
LansingYorkville

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/