Do you know of Van Buren ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Van Buren. 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 Van Buren.
Our sources for Van Buren (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 Van Buren other than they indicate that Van Buren would be found somewhere in Whatcom County, Washington.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1918.
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 Van Buren ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Van Buren.
Within Washington, the name Van Buren is unique.
Beyond Washington, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Crawford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Van Buren [Crawford County].
- Georgia
- Jones County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Van Buren [Jones County].
- Indiana
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Van Buren [Grant County].
- Iowa
- Kentucky
- Anderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Van Buren [Anderson County].
- Louisiana
- Livingston Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Van Buren [Livingston Parish].
- Maine
- Aroostook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Van Buren [Aroostook County].
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Itawamba County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Van Buren [Itawamba County].
- Missouri
- New York
- Chautauqua 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 New York community of Van Buren [Chautauqua County].
- Onondaga County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Van Buren [Onondaga County].
- Ohio
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Van Buren [Hancock County].
- Licking 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 Ohio community of Van Buren [Licking County].
- Pennsylvania
- Tennessee
- Hardeman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Van Buren [Hardeman County].
- Wisconsin
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Van Buren [Grant County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Van Buren ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Van Buren:
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 Van Buren - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Western Canada
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2006
(Available from Amazon.com)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Van Buren.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 53/74025 (Place Name: Van Buren)
County: Whatcom (FIPS State/County: 53/073)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Van Buren) 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 Whatcom County ...
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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 Whatcom 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 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 Van Buren 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/ |