Do you know of Gilman ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Gilman. 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 Gilman.
Our sources for Gilman (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 Gilman other than they indicate that Gilman would be found somewhere in Piscataquis County, Maine.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 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 Gilman ...
We found sixteen communities that share the name Gilman.
There is one other community in Maine which is also named Gilman.
Beyond Maine, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Maine ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
- Eagle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Gilman [Eagle County].
- Connecticut
- New London County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Gilman [New London County].
- Illinois
- Iroquois County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Gilman [Iroquois County].
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Gilman [Marshall County].
- Kansas
- Minnesota
- Benton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Gilman [Benton County].
- Montana
- Lewis and Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Gilman [Lewis and Clark County].
- New Mexico
- Sandoval County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Gilman [Sandoval County].
- South Dakota
- Vermont
- Essex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Gilman [Essex County].
- Virginia
- Hanover County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Gilman [Hanover County].
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Randolph County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Gilman [Randolph County].
- Wisconsin
- Taylor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Gilman [Taylor County].
- Colorado
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Gilman ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Gilman:
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 Gilman - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Maine (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Piscataquis 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 Piscataquis 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 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 Gilman 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/ |