Do you know of Burnside ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Burnside. 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 Burnside.
Our sources for Burnside (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 Burnside other than they indicate that Burnside would be found somewhere in Clinton County, Indiana.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1863 and closed in 1898.
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 Burnside ...
We found 28 communities that share the name Burnside.
There is one other community in Indiana which is also named Burnside.
Beyond Indiana, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 23 are located in the United States and seven are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Indiana ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Burnside.
- Arizona
- Apache County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Burnside [Apache County].
- Connecticut
- Hartford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Burnside [Hartford County].
- Georgia
- Chatham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Burnside [Chatham County].
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Webster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Burnside [Webster County].
- Kansas
- Atchison 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 Kansas community of Burnside [Atchison County].
- Brown County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Burnside [Brown County].
- Kentucky
- Pulaski County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Burnside [Pulaski County].
- Louisiana
- Ascension Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Burnside [Ascension Parish].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Burnside.
- Michigan
- Lapeer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Burnside [Lapeer County].
- Mississippi
- Neshoba County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Burnside [Neshoba County].
- New York
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Burnside [Orange County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Burnside.
- Nova Scotia
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Burnside.
- Oregon
- Clatsop County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Burnside [Clatsop County].
- Pennsylvania
- Clearfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Burnside [Clearfield County].
- Delaware 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 Pennsylvania community of Burnside [Delaware County].
- Northumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Burnside [Northumberland County].
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Virginia
- Alberta
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Burnside ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Burnside:
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 Burnside - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Clinton 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 Clinton County.
| Berlin | Kilemore |
| Cheadle | Mortonsville |
| Circleville | |
| Pickard's Mill | |
| Gaylor | Prairieville |
| Greetingville | |
| Russiaville | |
| Jefferson Station | |
| Taylorsville |
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Burnside 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/ |