Do you know of Amherst ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Amherst. 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 Amherst.
We found mention of Amherst as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Russell County, Kansas.
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 1886 and closed in 1887.
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 Amherst ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Amherst.
There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Amherst.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 23 communities, 21 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
- Phillips County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Amherst [Phillips County].
- Florida
- Illinois
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Amherst [Lake County].
- Maine
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Amherst [Hancock County].
- Massachusetts
- Hampshire County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Amherst [Hampshire County].
- Minnesota
- Fillmore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Amherst [Fillmore County].
- Montana
- Fergus County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Amherst [Fergus County].
- Nebraska
- Buffalo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Amherst [Buffalo County].
- New Hampshire
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Amherst [Hillsborough County].
- New York
- North Carolina
- Burke County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Amherst [Burke County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Amherst.
- Ohio
- Lorain County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Amherst [Lorain County].
- Ontario
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Amherst.
- South Dakota
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Amherst [Marshall County].
- Tennessee
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Amherst [Knox County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Amherst County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Amherst [Amherst County].
- Fairfax 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 Virginia community of Amherst [Fairfax County].
- Wisconsin
- Portage County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Amherst [Portage County].
- Colorado
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Amherst ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Amherst:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
More Orphans in Russell 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 Russell County.
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 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 Amherst 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/ |