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Do you know of Addison ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Addison. 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 Addison. Our sources for Addison (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 Addison other than they indicate that Addison would be found somewhere in Cass County, North Dakota. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 and closed in 1920. 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 Addison ...We found eighteen communities that share the name Addison. Within North Dakota, the name Addison is unique. Beyond North Dakota, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, seventeen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Addison ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Addison: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Addison - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office Rand McNally Map of North Dakota (1897)
SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Dakotas & Minnesota
The FIPS database contains an entry for Addison. Referenced FIPS Records ... FIPS Code: 38/00460 (Place Name: Addison) County: Cass (FIPS State/County: 38/017) Class: U8 Identifies a populated place (in this case, Addison) 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 Cass 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 Cass County.
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