Do you know of Belden ???

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

Our sources for Belden (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 Belden other than they indicate that Belden would be found somewhere in Wabash County, Indiana.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1854 and closed in 1897.

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 Belden ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Belden.

Within Indiana, the name Belden is unique.

Beyond Indiana, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Plumas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Belden [Plumas County].
- Colorado
  - Eagle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Belden [Eagle County].
- Connecticut
  - Fairfield 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 Connecticut community of Belden [Fairfield County].
- Illinois
  - McHenry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Belden [McHenry County].
- Michigan
  - Wayne 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 Michigan community of Belden [Wayne County].
- Minnesota
  - Pine County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Belden [Pine County].
- Mississippi
  - Lee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Belden [Lee County].
- Nebraska
  - Cedar County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Belden [Cedar County].
- New York
  - Broome County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Belden [Broome County].
- North Dakota
  - Mountrail County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Belden [Mountrail County].
- Ohio
  - Lorain County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Belden [Lorain County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Bedford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Belden [Bedford County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Belden ...

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

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

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

Map from 1908 (unknown title/publisher)

More Orphans in Wabash 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 Wabash County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Belden 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/