Do you know of Coldwater ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Coldwater. 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 Coldwater.
Our sources for Coldwater (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 Coldwater other than they indicate that Coldwater would be found somewhere in McIntosh County, North Dakota.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1884 and closed in 1924.
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 Coldwater ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Coldwater.
Within North Dakota, the name Coldwater is unique.
Beyond North Dakota, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 23 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Cleburne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Coldwater [Cleburne County].
- Covington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Coldwater [Covington County].
- Talladega County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Coldwater [Talladega County].
- Arizona
- Maricopa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Coldwater [Maricopa County].
- Arkansas
- Cross County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Coldwater [Cross County].
- Florida
- Georgia
- Elbert County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Coldwater [Elbert County].
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Comanche County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Coldwater [Comanche County].
- Kentucky
- Calloway County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Coldwater [Calloway County].
- Louisiana
- Winn Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Coldwater [Winn Parish].
- Michigan
- Branch County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Coldwater [Branch County].
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Coldwater [Wayne County].
- New York
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Coldwater [Monroe County].
- Ohio
- Mercer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Coldwater [Mercer County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Coldwater.
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Virginia
- King and Queen County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Coldwater [King and Queen County].
- West Virginia
- Doddridge County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Coldwater [Doddridge County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Coldwater ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Coldwater:
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 Coldwater - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of North Dakota (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in McIntosh 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 McIntosh County.
| Giedt | Norwegian |
| Jewell | Ostrem |
| Kassel | Youngstown |
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Coldwater 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/ |