Do you know of Prairie Center ???

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

We found mention of Prairie Center as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Goshen County, Wyoming.

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.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1919 and closed  in 1919.

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 Prairie Center ...

We found six communities that share the name Prairie Center.

Within Wyoming, the name Prairie Center is unique.

Beyond Wyoming, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arkansas
    • Lonoke County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Prairie Center [Lonoke County].
  • Illinois
    • La Salle County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Prairie Center [La Salle County].
  • Kansas
    • Johnson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Prairie Center [Johnson County].
  • Nebraska
    • Buffalo County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Prairie Center [Buffalo County].
  • Texas
    • Matagorda County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Prairie Center [Matagorda County].
  • Washington
    • Island County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Prairie Center [Island County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Prairie Center ...

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

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Prairie Center.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 56/62595   (Place Name: Prairie Center)

County: Goshen     (FIPS State/County: 56/015)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Prairie Center) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Goshen 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 Goshen County.