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Do you know of Arden ???

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

Our sources for Arden (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 Arden other than they indicate that Arden would be found somewhere in Somerset County, Maryland.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1891 and closed  in 1907.

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 Arden ...

We found 22 communities that share the name Arden.

Within Maryland, the name Arden is unique.

Beyond Maryland, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 22 communities, twenty are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Little River County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Arden [Little River County].
    • California
      • Sacramento County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Arden [Sacramento County].
    • Colorado
      • Kiowa 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 Colorado community of Arden [Kiowa County].
    • Delaware
      • New Castle County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Arden [New Castle County].
    • Georgia
      • Bryan 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 Arden [Bryan County].
    • Illinois
      • Pike 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 Illinois community of Arden [Pike County].
    • Manitoba
      • Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Arden.
    • Michigan
      • Berrien County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Arden [Berrien County].
    • Missouri
      • Douglas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Arden [Douglas County].
    • Nebraska
      • Boone County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Arden [Boone County].
    • Nevada
      • Clark County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Arden [Clark County].
    • New York
      • Orange County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Arden [Orange County].
    • North Carolina
      • Buncombe County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Arden [Buncombe County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Arden.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Arden [Washington County].
    • South Carolina
      • Greenville 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 South Carolina community of Arden [Greenville County].
      • Richland 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 South Carolina community of Arden [Richland County].
    • Tennessee
      • Monroe County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Arden [Monroe County].
    • Texas
      • Irion County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Arden [Irion County].
    • Washington
      • Stevens County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Arden [Stevens County].
    • West Virginia
      • Barbour County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Arden [Barbour County].
      • Berkeley County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Arden [Berkeley County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Arden ...

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

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Arden - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)

Rand McNally Map of Maryland (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Somerset 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 Somerset County.

AtkinsonJason
  
BedsworthKings Creek
Brinkley 
BurnettsvilleMarion Station
  
CokesburgPeninsula Junction
  
DublinRock Creek
  
HabnabSaint Peters Creek
Harold 
 Tangier
Jacksonville 
JamestownWest

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 Arden 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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