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Do you know of Baltimore ???

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

We found mention of Baltimore as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Cowley County, Kansas.

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.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1873 and closed  in 1885.

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 Baltimore ...

We found 22 communities that share the name Baltimore.

There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Baltimore.

Beyond Kansas, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 21 communities, twenty are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Kansas ...
    • Anderson 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 Baltimore [Anderson County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Cullman County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Baltimore [Cullman County].
    • California
      • Placer County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Baltimore [Placer County].
    • Colorado
      • Gilpin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Baltimore [Gilpin County].
    • Delaware
      • Baltimore #1
      • 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 Delaware community of Baltimore.
    • Georgia
      • Wilkes 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 Georgia community of Baltimore [Wilkes County].
    • Indiana
      • Warren County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Baltimore [Warren County].
    • Iowa
      • Henry County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Baltimore [Henry County].
    • Kentucky
      • Graves County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Baltimore [Graves County].
      • Hickman 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 Kentucky community of Baltimore [Hickman County].
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore City
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Baltimore [Baltimore City].
    • Michigan
      • Ontonagon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Baltimore [Ontonagon County].
    • New Brunswick
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Baltimore.
    • New York
      • Cortland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Baltimore [Cortland County].
    • North Carolina
      • Bladen County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Baltimore [Bladen County].
      • Yadkin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Baltimore [Yadkin County].
    • Ohio
      • Fairfield County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Baltimore [Fairfield 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 Ohio community of Baltimore [Montgomery County].
      • Warren County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Baltimore [Warren County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Baltimore.
    • Tennessee
      • Cocke County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Baltimore [Cocke County].
    • Vermont
      • Windsor County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Baltimore [Windsor County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Baltimore ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Cowley 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 Cowley County.

AdelphiaJeffersonville
Arcola 
AuroraLagonda
 Lake View
BarstowLazette
BeaverLegonda
BoxLone Tree
  
Cabin ValleyMoscow
CaleMount Vernon
Cedar Creek 
ChilloccoNew Canton
ClarenceNinnescah
Cleveland 
College HillOtto
Cowley 
CrescoPolks
CresswellPolo
  
DanumRed Bud
Davidson 
DelphiSalt Spring City
DixieSarien
 Seely
East AkronSouth Bend
EatonvilleSouth Winfield
EliSyracuse
Erie 
EurekaTannehill
 Thomasville
FrankfortTipton
 Torrance
Glen GroveTownsend
Grant Summit 
Grouse CreekWalnut City
 Windsor
Highland ParkWinfield Junction
  

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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Baltimore 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/









 

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