Do you know of Badger ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Badger. 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 Badger.
We found mention of Badger as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.
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.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1849 and closed in 1853.
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 Badger ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Badger.
There is one other community in Wisconsin which is also named Badger.
Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, seventeen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
In addition to the above occurrences of Badger, we know of another community located outside of the United States and Canada.
- Communities Located In Wisconsin ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alaska
- Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Badger.
- California
- Tulare County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Badger [Tulare County].
- Colorado
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Badger [Washington County].
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Webster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Badger [Webster County].
- Kansas
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Badger [Cherokee County].
- Kentucky
- Taylor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Badger [Taylor County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Badger.
- Minnesota
- Kittson 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 Minnesota community of Badger [Kittson County].
- Roseau County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Badger [Roseau County].
- Nebraska
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Badger.
- South Dakota
- Kingsbury County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Badger [Kingsbury County].
- Texas
- Ector County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Badger [Ector County].
- Washington
- Benton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Badger [Benton County].
- Yakima 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 Washington community of Badger [Yakima County].
- Wyoming
- Alaska
- Communities Beyond North America ...
- England
- We haven't found the location of this Badger
- England
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Badger ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Badger:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
More Orphans in Fond du Lac 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 Fond du Lac County.
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Badger 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |