Do you know of Moran ???

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

Our sources for Moran (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Moran other than they indicate that Moran would be found somewhere in Laramie County, Wyoming.

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 Moran ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Moran.

There is one other community in Wyoming which is also named Moran.

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

Communities Located In Wyoming ...
- Teton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Moran [Teton County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Mississippi County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Moran [Mississippi County].
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Moran.
- California
  - Lassen County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Moran [Lassen County].
  - Sierra 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 California community of Moran [Sierra County].
- Georgia
  - Crawford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Moran [Crawford County].
- Indiana
  - Clinton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Moran [Clinton County].
- Iowa
  - Dallas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Moran [Dallas County].
- Kansas
  - Allen County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Moran [Allen County].
- Louisiana
  - Plaquemines Parish
  - 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 Louisiana community of Moran [Plaquemines Parish].
- Michigan
  - Mackinac County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Moran [Mackinac County].
  - Schoolcraft 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 Moran [Schoolcraft County].
- Ohio
  - Portage County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Moran [Portage County].
- Texas
  - Shackelford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Moran [Shackelford County].
- Virginia
  - Prince Edward County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Moran [Prince Edward County].
- Washington
  - Spokane 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 Washington community of Moran [Spokane County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Moran ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Laramie 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 Laramie County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Moran 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.