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Do you know of Hika ???

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

Our sources for Hika (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 Hika other than they indicate that Hika would be found somewhere in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1858 and closed  in 1954.

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 Hika ...

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

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

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

Shell Oil Road Map for Wisconsin (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

The FIPS database contains an entry for Hika.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 55/34550   (Place Name: Hika)

County: Manitowoc     (FIPS State/County: 55/071)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- Hika) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in  Manitowoc 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 Manitowoc County.

Brockville 
 Oslo
East Gibson 
EastwinPine Grove
EatonPolifka Corners
Elk 
 Quarry
Greenstreet 
 Rapids
KassonRosemere
Kellersville 
 Saint Wendel
MontroseStark
  
NeroTimothy
Niles 

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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This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024