Do you know of Dunham ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Dunham. 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 Dunham.<1>
We found mention of Dunham as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in McHenry County, Illinois.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1846 and closed in 1857.
Communities Also Named Dunham ...
We found nine communities that share the name Dunham.
Within Illinois, the name Dunham is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nine communities, eight are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Liberty County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Dunham [Liberty County].
- Kentucky
- Letcher County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Dunham [Letcher County].
- Michigan
- Arenac County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Dunham [Arenac County].
- Gogebic County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Dunham [Gogebic County].
- Montana
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Dunham [Lake County].
- New York
- Ohio
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Dunham [Washington County].
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Dunham.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dunham ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Dunham:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in McHenry 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 McHenry County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Dunham 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. |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |