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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Rushville came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of Rushville in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Rushville. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Rushville data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

 

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)

Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Rushville:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, a Railroad Station, an Express Office

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)

Published by the Government Printing Office

In this book, Rushville was listed as Rushville Courthouse.<1>

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)

Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

In this book, Rushville was listed as Rushville Courthouse.<1>

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)

Published by John T. Towers

In this book, Rushville was listed as Rushville Courthouse.<1>

Map from 1908 (unknown title/publisher)

Shell Oil Road Map for Indiana (1956)

Published by Shell Oil Company


In addition:

Rushville is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

We found Rushville in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for Rushville for more information.

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Rushville. See our Misc Page for Rushville for more information.


Railroad Mentions of Rushville:

Rushville was mentioned in the following schedules:

Greyhound Bus Time Table (November 1931)

New York Central 'Big Four' Time Tables (August 1908)

Pennsylvania Railroad Time Tables (March 1920)

Footnotes ...

<1>For information about how community names have been affected by the Board of Geographic Names (BGN), see our page about Placename Rules.
<2>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

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