Do you know of Andersonville ???

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

Our sources for Andersonville (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Andersonville other than they indicate that Andersonville would be found somewhere in Daviess County, Kentucky.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1892 and closed in 1906.

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 Andersonville ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Andersonville.

Within Kentucky, the name Andersonville is unique.

Beyond Kentucky, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Etowah 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 Andersonville [Etowah County].
- Colorado
  - Larimer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Andersonville [Larimer County].
- Georgia
  - Cherokee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Andersonville [Cherokee County].
  - Cobb 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 Andersonville [Cobb County].
  - Sumter County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Andersonville [Sumter County].
- Indiana
  - Delaware County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Andersonville [Delaware County].
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Andersonville [Franklin County].
- Michigan
  - Oakland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Andersonville [Oakland County].
- Montana
  - Fergus County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Andersonville [Fergus County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Andersonville.
- Ohio
  - Brown County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Andersonville [Brown County].
  - Ross County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Andersonville [Ross County].
- South Carolina
  - Anderson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Andersonville [Anderson County].
- Tennessee
  - Anderson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Andersonville [Anderson County].
- Virginia
  - Buckingham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Andersonville [Buckingham County].
- West Virginia
  - Marshall County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Andersonville [Marshall County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Andersonville ...

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

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

George#&160;F. Cram Map (1905)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Andersonville.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 21/01558 (Place Name: Andersonville)

County: Daviess (FIPS State/County: 21/059)

Class: X3

More Orphans in Daviess 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 Daviess 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 Andersonville 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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