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This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Osceola Mills. 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 Osceola Mills.

Our sources for Osceola Mills (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 Osceola Mills other than they indicate that Osceola Mills would be found somewhere in Polk County, Wisconsin.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1854 and closed  in 1897.

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 Osceola Mills ...

We found one communities that share the name Osceola Mills.

Within Wisconsin, the name Osceola Mills is unique.

Beyond Wisconsin, there is another community also named Osceola Mills in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Pennsylvania
    • Clearfield County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Osceola Mills [Clearfield County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Osceola Mills ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Osceola Mills - Services available: had a Post Office, Express Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Osceola Mills was listed as Osceola Mills Courthouse.

More Orphans in  Polk County ...

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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 Polk County.