Do you know of Abbott ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Abbott. 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 Abbott.
Our sources for Abbott (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 Abbott other than they indicate that Abbott would be found somewhere in Mason County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1884 and closed in 1892.
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 Abbott ...
We found sixteen communities that share the name Abbott.
Within Michigan, the name Abbott is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
In addition to the above occurrences of Abbott, we know of another community located outside of the United States and Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Abbott [Scott County].
- California
- Sutter County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Abbott [Sutter County].
- Colorado
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Abbott [Washington County].
- Florida
- Iowa
- Hardin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Abbott [Hardin County].
- Kentucky
- Floyd County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Abbott [Floyd County].
- Trimble 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 Kentucky community of Abbott [Trimble County].
- Mississippi
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Abbott [Clay County].
- Nebraska
- Hall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Abbott [Hall County].
- New Mexico
- Colfax County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Abbott [Colfax County].
- Pennsylvania
- Potter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Abbott [Potter County].
- Texas
- Hill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Abbott [Hill County].
- Virginia
- Craig County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Abbott [Craig County].
- West Virginia
- Upshur County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Abbott [Upshur County].
- Communities Beyond North America ...
- Argentina
- We haven't found the location of this Abbott
- Argentina
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Abbott ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Abbott:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Along The Tracks, A Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads
Written by: Meints, Graydon M.
Published by Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University - 1987
(Available from Amazon.com)
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Abbott - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Mason 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 Mason 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 Abbott 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/ |