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Do you know of Lyons ???

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

Our sources for Lyons (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 Lyons other than they indicate that Lyons would be found somewhere in Fremont County, Wyoming.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1885 and closed  in 1905.

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 Lyons ...

We found 36 communities that share the name Lyons.

Within Wyoming, the name Lyons is unique.

Beyond Wyoming, we know of another 36 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 36 communities, 35 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Colorado
      • Boulder County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Lyons [Boulder County].
    • Florida
      • Hillsborough County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Lyons [Hillsborough County].
    • Georgia
      • Montgomery 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 Georgia community of Lyons [Montgomery County].
      • Tattnall County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Lyons [Tattnall County].
      • Toombs County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Lyons [Toombs County].
    • Illinois
      • Cook County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Lyons [Cook County].
      • Vermilion 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 Illinois community of Lyons [Vermilion County].
    • Indiana
      • Greene County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Lyons [Greene County].
    • Iowa
      • Clinton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Lyons [Clinton County].
      • Linn 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 Iowa community of Lyons [Linn County].
    • Kansas
      • Miami 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 Kansas community of Lyons [Miami County].
      • Rice County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lyons [Rice County].
    • Kentucky
      • Larue County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Lyons [Larue County].
    • Louisiana
      • Iberia Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Lyons [Iberia Parish].
      • Jackson Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Lyons [Jackson Parish].
    • Michigan
      • Clinton 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 Michigan community of Lyons [Clinton County].
      • Ionia County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Lyons [Ionia County].
    • Missouri
      • Laclede County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Lyons [Laclede County].
    • Nebraska
      • Burt County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Lyons [Burt County].
    • New Jersey
      • Somerset County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Lyons [Somerset County].
    • New York
      • Wayne County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Lyons [Wayne County].
    • North Carolina
      • Granville County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Lyons [Granville County].
    • North Dakota
      • Morton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Lyons [Morton County].
    • Ohio
      • Fulton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lyons [Fulton County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Adair County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Lyons [Adair County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Lyons.
    • Oregon
      • Linn County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Lyons [Linn County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Berks County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Lyons [Berks County].
    • South Carolina
      • Orangeburg 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 South Carolina community of Lyons [Orangeburg County].
    • South Dakota
      • Minnehaha County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Lyons [Minnehaha County].
    • Tennessee
      • Monroe 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 Tennessee community of Lyons [Monroe County].
    • Texas
      • Burleson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lyons [Burleson County].
      • Hidalgo County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lyons [Hidalgo County].
    • Virginia
      • Wise County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Lyons [Wise County].
    • Washington
      • Spokane County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Lyons [Spokane County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Walworth County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Lyons [Walworth County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lyons ...

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

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 Lyons - Services available: had a Post Office, Express Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Fremont 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 Fremont County.

Brownsville 
 Hailey
Dallas 
DerbyLucky MacCamp
Duncan 
 Rongis
Gas Hills 
GateShobon

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Lyons 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/









 

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