Do you know of Lima ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lima. 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 Lima.
Our sources for Lima (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 Lima other than they indicate that Lima would be found somewhere in Washtenaw County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1834 and closed in 1901.
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 Lima ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Lima.
Within Michigan, the name Lima is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Illinois
- Adams County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Lima [Adams County].
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Lima [Fayette County].
- Kansas
- Allen 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 Kansas community of Lima [Allen County].
- Anderson 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 Lima [Anderson County].
- Clay 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 Lima [Clay County].
- Elk 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 Lima [Elk County].
- Louisiana
- Saint Tammany Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Lima [Saint Tammany Parish].
- Missouri
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Lima [Carroll County].
- Montana
- Beaverhead County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Lima [Beaverhead County].
- Nevada
- Pershing County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Lima [Pershing County].
- New York
- Livingston County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Lima [Livingston County].
- North Carolina
- Craven County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Lima [Craven County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Lima [Delaware County].
- South Carolina
- Greenville County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Lima [Greenville County].
- Virginia
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Pepin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Lima [Pepin County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lima ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lima:
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 Lima - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Washtenaw 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 Washtenaw 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 Lima 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/ |