Do you know of Hugo ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hugo. 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 Hugo.
Our sources for Hugo (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 Hugo other than they indicate that Hugo would be found somewhere in Gibson County, Indiana.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1896 and closed in 1902.
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 Hugo ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Hugo.
There is one other community in Indiana which is also named Hugo.
Beyond Indiana, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Indiana ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Marengo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Hugo [Marengo County].
- Arkansas
- Phillips County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Hugo [Phillips County].
- Colorado
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Hugo [Lincoln County].
- Illinois
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Hugo [Douglas County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Hugo.
- Minnesota
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Hugo [Washington County].
- Mississippi
- Tallahatchie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Hugo [Tallahatchie County].
- Missouri
- Camden County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Hugo [Camden County].
- Montgomery 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 Missouri community of Hugo [Montgomery County].
- North Carolina
- Lenoir County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Hugo [Lenoir County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Choctaw County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Hugo [Choctaw County].
- Oregon
- Josephine County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Hugo [Josephine County].
- Virginia
- Southampton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Hugo [Southampton County].
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Putnam County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Hugo [Putnam County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hugo ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hugo:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Map from 1908 (unknown title/publisher)
More Orphans in Gibson 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 Gibson County.
| Beck | Loyd |
| Bovine | |
| Buena Vista | Marble Hill |
| Maxams | |
| Carol | Millers |
| Mount Vernon Junction | |
| Dike | |
| Summit | |
| Fetters | |
| Tracewell | |
| Hazelton | |
| West Buena Vista | |
| Keno | Winszor |
| Kirkville | |
| Knowles | York |
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 Hugo 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/ |