Do you know of Hampden ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Hampden, so we are uncertain whether Hampden is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Hampden would be found somewhere in Neosho County, Kansas.

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 Hampden ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Hampden.

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

Beyond Kansas, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, ten are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Coffey 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 Hampden [Coffey County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Marengo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Hampden [Marengo County].
- Maine
  - Penobscot County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Hampden [Penobscot County].
- Maryland
  - Baltimore City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Hampden [Baltimore City].
- Massachusetts
  - Hampden County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Hampden [Hampden County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
  - Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Hampden.
- North Dakota
  - Ramsey County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Hampden [Ramsey County].
- Ohio
  - Geauga 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 Hampden [Geauga County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Hampden.
- Pennsylvania
  - Berks 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 Pennsylvania community of Hampden [Berks County].
  - Cumberland County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Hampden [Cumberland County].
- Quebec
  - Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Hampden.
- West Virginia
  - Mingo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Hampden [Mingo County].

More Orphans in Neosho 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 Neosho County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Hampden 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.