Do you know of Gilmore ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Gilmore. 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 Gilmore.
Our sources for Gilmore (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 Gilmore other than they indicate that Gilmore would be found somewhere in Isabella County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1906.
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 Gilmore ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Gilmore.
Within Michigan, the name Gilmore is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Gilmore [Jefferson County].
- Arkansas
- Crittenden County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Gilmore [Crittenden County].
- Florida
- Duval County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Gilmore [Duval County].
- Georgia
- Cobb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Gilmore [Cobb County].
- Idaho
- Lemhi County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Gilmore [Lemhi County].
- Illinois
- Kansas
- Thomas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Gilmore [Thomas County].
- Maryland
- Allegany County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Gilmore [Allegany County].
- Mississippi
- Covington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Gilmore [Covington County].
- Missouri
- Saint Charles County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Gilmore [Saint Charles County].
- Nebraska
- Sarpy County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Gilmore [Sarpy County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Le Flore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Gilmore [Le Flore County].
- Pennsylvania
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Gilmore [Fayette County].
- McKean County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Gilmore [McKean County].
- Washington 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 Gilmore [Washington County].
- Tennessee
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Gilmore [Madison County].
- Virginia
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Gilmore ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Gilmore:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Isabella 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 Isabella 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Gilmore 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/ |