Do you know of Lamont ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lamont. 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 Lamont.
We found mention of Lamont as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Sedgwick 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 1877 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 Lamont ...
We found 29 communities that share the name Lamont.
There are two communities within Kansas that are also named Lamont.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 28 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Greenwood County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lamont [Greenwood County].
- Montgomery County
- Greenwood County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Butler 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 Lamont [Butler County].
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Lamont [Marshall County].
- Alaska
- Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Lamont.
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Lamont.
- Arkansas
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Lamont [Grant County].
- California
- Kern County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Lamont [Kern County].
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Fremont County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Lamont [Fremont County].
- Iowa
- Buchanan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Lamont [Buchanan County].
- Kentucky
- Michigan
- Ottawa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Lamont [Ottawa County].
- Mississippi
- Bolivar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Lamont [Bolivar County].
- Nebraska
- Dundy County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Lamont [Dundy County].
- New York
- Wyoming County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Lamont [Wyoming County].
- North Carolina
- Oklahoma
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Lamont [Grant County].
- Pennsylvania
- Elk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Lamont [Elk County].
- Tennessee
- Robertson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Lamont [Robertson County].
- Texas
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lamont [Polk County].
- Washington
- Whitman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Lamont [Whitman County].
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Lafayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Lamont [Lafayette County].
- Wyoming
- Carbon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Lamont [Carbon County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lamont ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lamont:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
More Orphans in Sedgwick 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 Sedgwick 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 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 Lamont 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/ |