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Do you know of Genoa Junction ???

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

We found mention of Genoa Junction as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Walworth 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 1874 and closed in 1924.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Genoa Junction ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

Chicago and Northwest Railway Time Table (December 1878)
Published by Chicago & North-West Railway

Chicago and Northwest Railway Time Table (June 1913)
Published by Chicago & North-Western Railway

Chicago and Northwest Railway Time Table (September 1901)
Published by Chicago & North-West Railway

More Orphans in  Walworth 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 Walworth County.

Baker's CornersMartinsville
Bay Hill 
 Pecks Station
East Troy Lake 
EltonRobinson Hillside
 Robinson
Fayetteville 
 South Grove
Geneva BayState Line
GenevaSugar Creek
Genevesta 
GenoaTirade
Goodlett 
GroveVienna
  
HudsonWandawega
 Westville
JacobsvilleWhite River Village
  

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 the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

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