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Do you know of Abscota ???

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

Our sources for Abscota (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 Abscota other than they indicate that Abscota would be found somewhere in Calhoun County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1838 and closed  in 1900.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Abscota ...

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

The FIPS database contains an entry for Abscota.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 26/00120   (Place Name: Abscota)

County: Calhoun     (FIPS State/County: 26/025)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Abscota) 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  Calhoun 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 Calhoun County.

AdamsNey
 Nichols
Bently Corners 
Brown's SidingOsborn's
Burley Corner 
 Penfield
ClarencePlaza
 Prairie View
Ellis 
EmmettRansom
Englewood ParkRansome
 Renton
Graham Lake 
GroverSaint Marys Lake
GrovervilleStanley
 Stuart Lake
Helmers 
HumeTokio
  
Level Park - Oak ParkVerona
Lyon Lake 
 Washington Heights
MadisonWheatfield
Michigan Central JunctionWhites
Morgan ParkWilders
 Wilderville
Newton 

Footnotes ...

<1>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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