Do you know of Golden ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Golden. 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 Golden.<1>
We found mention of Golden as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Baltimore County, Maryland.
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.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1823 and closed in 1848.
Communities Also Named Golden ...
We found 33 communities that share the name Golden.
Within Maryland, the name Golden is unique.
Beyond Maryland, we know of another 33 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 33 communities, 31 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alaska
- Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Golden.
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Golden.
- Colorado
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Golden [Jefferson County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Golden [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
- Brooks County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Golden [Brooks County].
- Haralson County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Golden [Haralson County].
- Idaho
- Idaho County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Golden [Idaho County].
- Illinois
- Adams County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Golden [Adams County].
- Iowa
- Delaware County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Golden [Delaware County].
- Kansas
- Grant County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Golden [Grant County].
- Hamilton 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 Kansas community of Golden [Hamilton County].
- Michigan
- Bay County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Golden [Bay County].
- Dickinson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Golden [Dickinson County].
- Menominee 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 Michigan community of Golden [Menominee County].
- Midland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Golden [Midland County].
- Mississippi
- Tishomingo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Golden [Tishomingo County].
- Missouri
- Barry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Golden [Barry County].
- Montana
- Carbon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Golden [Carbon County].
- Nebraska
- Burt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Golden [Burt County].
- Nevada
- Nye County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Golden [Nye County].
- New Mexico
- Santa Fe County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Golden [Santa Fe County].
- North Carolina
- Rutherford County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Golden [Rutherford County].
- Oklahoma
- Grant County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Golden [Grant County].
- McCurtain County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Golden [McCurtain County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Golden.
- Oregon
- Josephine County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Golden [Josephine County].
- Pennsylvania
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Golden [York County].
- South Dakota
- Texas
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Alaska
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Golden ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Golden:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Baltimore 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 Baltimore County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Golden 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. |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |