Do you know of Beaumont ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Beaumont. 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 Beaumont.
Our sources for Beaumont (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 Beaumont other than they indicate that Beaumont would be found somewhere in Chatham County, North Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1851 and closed in 1914.
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 Beaumont ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Beaumont.
There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Beaumont.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and six are in Canada.
- Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Henderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Beaumont [Henderson County].
- Henderson County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Beaumont.
- California
- Riverside County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Beaumont [Riverside County].
- San Bernardino 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 Beaumont [San Bernardino County].
- Colorado
- Kansas
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Beaumont [Butler County].
- Cherokee 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 Kansas community of Beaumont [Cherokee County].
- Kentucky
- Metcalfe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Beaumont [Metcalfe County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Beaumont.
- Mississippi
- Perry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Beaumont [Perry County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Beaumont.
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Beaumont.
- Ohio
- Athens County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Beaumont [Athens County].
- Pennsylvania
- Wyoming County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Beaumont [Wyoming County].
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Beaumont.
- Texas
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Beaumont [Jefferson County].
- Virginia
- Goochland 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 Beaumont [Goochland County].
- Powhatan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Beaumont [Powhatan County].
- Washington
- King County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Beaumont [King County].
- Wisconsin
- Racine County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Beaumont [Racine County].
- Alberta
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Beaumont ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Beaumont:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Beaumont - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Chatham 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 Chatham 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Beaumont 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/ |