Do you know of Big Indian ???

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

Our sources for Big Indian (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 Big Indian other than they indicate that Big Indian would be found somewhere in Cass County, Indiana.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1868 and closed  in 1894.

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 Big Indian ...

We found one communities that share the name Big Indian.

Within Indiana, the name Big Indian is unique.

Beyond Indiana, there is another community also named Big Indian in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • New York
    • Ulster County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Big Indian [Ulster County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Big Indian ...

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

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 Big Indian - 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  Cass 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 Cass County.