Do you know of Cold Springs ???

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

We found mention of Cold Springs as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Ness 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 1879 and closed in 1884.

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 Cold Springs ...

We found 35 communities that share the name Cold Springs.

There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Cold Springs.

Beyond Kansas, we know of another 34 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 34 communities, 33 are located in the United States and five are in Canada.

Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Doniphan 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 Cold Springs [Doniphan County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Cullman County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cold Springs [Cullman County].
  - Elmore County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cold Springs [Elmore County].
  - Morgan 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 Alabama community of Cold Springs [Morgan County].
- Arkansas
  - Saline County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Cold Springs [Saline County].
- California
  - El Dorado County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Cold Springs [El Dorado County].
  - Tuolumne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Cold Springs [Tuolumne County].
- Georgia
  - Turner County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Cold Springs [Turner County].
- Indiana
  - Dearborn County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Cold Springs [Dearborn County].
  - Steuben County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Cold Springs [Steuben County].
- Kentucky
  - Carter County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Cold Springs [Carter County].
  - Meade County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Cold Springs [Meade County].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Cold Springs.
- Michigan
  - Cheboygan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Cold Springs [Cheboygan County].
- Mississippi
  - Covington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Cold Springs [Covington County].
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Cold Springs [Washington County].
- Missouri
  - Benton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Cold Springs [Benton County].
- Nevada
  - Churchill County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Cold Springs [Churchill County].
  - Washoe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Cold Springs [Washoe County].
- New York
  - Onondaga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Cold Springs [Onondaga County].
  - Seneca County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Cold Springs [Seneca County].
  - Steuben County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Cold Springs [Steuben County].
- North Carolina
  - Burke County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Cold Springs [Burke County].
  - Cabarrus County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Cold Springs [Cabarrus County].
- Ohio
  - Ashtabula County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Cold Springs [Ashtabula County].
  - Clark 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 Cold Springs [Clark County].
- Oklahoma
  - Kiowa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Cold Springs [Kiowa County].
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Cold Springs.
- Oregon
  - Umatilla County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Cold Springs [Umatilla County].
- Tennessee
  - Blount County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Cold Springs [Blount County].
  - Cumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Cold Springs [Cumberland County].
  - Hawkins County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Cold Springs [Hawkins County].
- Texas
  - Coryell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Cold Springs [Coryell County].
  - Uvalde County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Cold Springs [Uvalde County].
- Wisconsin
  - La Crosse County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Cold Springs [La Crosse County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cold Springs ...

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

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

More Orphans in Ness 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 Ness County.

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 Cold Springs 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/