Do you know of North Star ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about North Star. 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 North Star.
Our sources for North Star (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 North Star other than they indicate that North Star would be found somewhere in Crawford County, Wisconsin.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1864 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 North Star ...
We found fourteen communities that share the name North Star.
There is one other community in Wisconsin which is also named North Star.
Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, eleven are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Wisconsin ...
- Portage County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of North Star [Portage County].
- Portage County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of North Star.
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of North Star.
- California
- Yuba County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of North Star [Yuba County].
- Colorado
- Gunnison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of North Star [Gunnison County].
- Delaware
- New Castle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of North Star [New Castle County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of North Star.
- Michigan
- Gratiot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of North Star [Gratiot County].
- Minnesota
- Martin 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 North Star [Martin County].
- Nicollet County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of North Star [Nicollet County].
- Nebraska
- Nance County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of North Star [Nance County].
- Ohio
- Darke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of North Star [Darke County].
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny 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 Pennsylvania community of North Star [Allegheny County].
- Texas
- Archer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of North Star [Archer County].
- Alberta
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for North Star ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about North Star:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for North Star - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Crawford 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 Crawford County.
| Clayton | Lower Lynxville |
| Crawford | |
| Marietta | |
| Elk | Millet |
| Freeman | Star Valley |
| Hurlbut | Wheatville |
| Wright Ferry | |
| Knapp's Creek | |
| Yankeetown |
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 North Star 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/ |