Do you know of Amsterdam ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Amsterdam. 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 Amsterdam.
We found mention of Amsterdam as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Cass County, Indiana.
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.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1834 and closed in 1875.
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 Amsterdam ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Amsterdam.
Within Indiana, the name Amsterdam is unique.
Beyond Indiana, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Merced County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Amsterdam [Merced County].
- Georgia
- Decatur County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Amsterdam [Decatur County].
- Idaho
- Twin Falls County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Amsterdam [Twin Falls County].
- Missouri
- Bates County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Amsterdam [Bates County].
- Montana
- Gallatin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Amsterdam [Gallatin County].
- New Jersey
- Hunterdon County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Amsterdam [Hunterdon County].
- New York
- Franklin 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 Amsterdam [Franklin County].
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Amsterdam [Montgomery County].
- Ohio
- Auglaize County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Amsterdam [Auglaize County].
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Amsterdam [Jefferson County].
- Licking County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Amsterdam [Licking County].
- Ross County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Amsterdam [Ross County].
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- Mercer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Amsterdam [Mercer County].
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Amsterdam.
- Texas
- Brazoria County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Amsterdam [Brazoria County].
- Virginia
- Botetourt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Amsterdam [Botetourt County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Amsterdam ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Amsterdam:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
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.
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 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 Amsterdam 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/ |