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Do you know of Ashmore ???

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

Our sources for Ashmore (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 Ashmore other than they indicate that Ashmore would be found somewhere in Tuscola County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1904 and closed  in 1911.

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 Ashmore ...

We found six communities that share the name Ashmore.

Within Michigan, the name Ashmore is unique.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, five are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Wakulla County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Ashmore [Wakulla County].
    • Georgia
      • Liberty County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ashmore [Liberty County].
    • Illinois
      • Coles County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Ashmore [Coles County].
    • Nova Scotia
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Ashmore.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Luzerne 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 Pennsylvania community of Ashmore [Luzerne County].
    • Texas
      • Gaines County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ashmore [Gaines County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ashmore ...

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

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)

Michigan Central Railroad Time Tables (July 1912)
Published by Michigan Central Railroad

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Ashmore.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 26/03760   (Place Name: Ashmore)

County: Tuscola     (FIPS State/County: 26/157)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Ashmore) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Tuscola 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 Tuscola County.

AbkeMarkell
Akron Coal MineMasoner
ArbelaMay
AtwoodMcHale
 Mitchells
Bank SandMontel
Berlin 
BloomfieldNorth Juniata
BradleyNorthgrove
BruceNovesta
  
Caro JunctionPattersons
ColumbiaPerkins
CorsanPleasant Hill
CramptonsPolmantier
CrossmanPost
 Purdy
Daytona 
DenmarkQuanicassee City
Dewar 
DowningRobinson
DuroRollo
 Ross Crossing
Elkland 
ElvaSanson
 Seeley
FrankSharpville
 Silver Creek
HainesSilverwood
HandySmiths
HarbinStewarts
HutchinsonStone
  
JenneyVan Patten
  
KarrWampson
KempsWells
KintnerWellsford
 Woodman
LockwoodWoodway
  

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 Ashmore 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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