Do you know of Dallas ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Dallas. 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 Dallas.<1>
We found mention of Dallas as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Milwaukee 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.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1849 and closed in 1849.
Communities Also Named Dallas ...
We found 34 communities that share the name Dallas.
There is one other community in Wisconsin which is also named Dallas.
Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another 31 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 31 communities, 30 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
In addition to the above occurrences of Dallas, we know of two communities located outside of the United States and Canada.
- Communities Located In Wisconsin ...
- Barron County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Dallas [Barron County].
- Barron County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Blount County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Dallas [Blount County].
- Dallas County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Dallas [Dallas County].
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Dallas [Madison County].
- Arkansas
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Dallas [Polk County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Dallas.
- Colorado
- Ouray County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Dallas [Ouray County].
- Florida
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Dallas [Marion County].
- Georgia
- Paulding County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Dallas [Paulding County].
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Dallas [Franklin County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Dallas.
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- North Carolina
- Gaston County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Dallas [Gaston County].
- Ohio
- Champaign County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Dallas [Champaign County].
- Highland County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Dallas [Highland County].
- Oregon
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Dallas [Polk County].
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Dallas [Allegheny County].
- Luzerne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Dallas [Luzerne County].
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Gregory County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Dallas [Gregory County].
- Tennessee
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Dallas [Hamilton County].
- Texas
- Dallas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Dallas [Dallas County].
- West Virginia
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Dallas [Marshall County].
- Wyoming
- Alabama
- Communities Beyond North America ...
- Australia
- We haven't found the location of this Dallas
- Scotland
- We haven't found the location of this Dallas
- Australia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dallas ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Dallas:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Milwaukee 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 Milwaukee County.
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> | 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 Dallas 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. |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |