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Do you know of Cushman ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cushman. 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 Cushman.<1>

We found mention of Cushman as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Bartholomew 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.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1891 and closed  in 1891.

Communities Also Named Cushman ...

We found nine communities that share the name Cushman.

Within Indiana, the name Cushman is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Independence County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Cushman [Independence County].
    • Illinois
      • Moultrie County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Cushman [Moultrie County].
    • Massachusetts
      • Hampshire County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Cushman [Hampshire County].
    • Michigan
      • Charlevoix 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 Cushman [Charlevoix County].
    • Montana
      • Golden Valley County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Cushman [Golden Valley County].
    • Nebraska
      • Lancaster County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Cushman [Lancaster County].
    • New Hampshire
      • Coos County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Cushman [Coos County].
    • Oregon
      • Lane County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Cushman [Lane County].
    • Texas
      • Wilbarger 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 Texas community of Cushman [Wilbarger County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cushman ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

More Orphans in  Bartholomew 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 Bartholomew County.

BannersvilleJoyville
Brook 
 Lamberts
Carney'sLefever
Chapel BluffLowell Mills
Clay HillLutheran Lake
Clifty Village 
CookMay Ridge
CrestviewMead Village
 Millers
DeerfieldMoore's Vineyard
  
East CliffordNew Warsaw
EastgateNoblitt Falls
Edgewood 
EgglestonOak Hills
Everroad Park WestOakcrest
  
FairlawnRock Creek
Flat Rock Park NorthRoyal View
Flintwood 
Forest Park NorthSandy Hook
 Schaefer Lake
GlenviewShiloh Village
 Sims
Hamor HeightsSouth Bethany
Harrison HillsSpringer
Harrison Lake 
Hartford PlaceTerrace Lake
Hartsville CrossingTipton Park
Heather HeightsTudor
Herod 
Hiker TraceWailesborough
HillcrestWenmeir
 Whittington
Indian HillsWiggs
 Wymansville

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 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 Cushman 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/









 

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