Do you know of Lyman ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lyman. 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 Lyman.
Our sources for Lyman (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 Lyman other than they indicate that Lyman would be found somewhere in Kent County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1900 and closed in 1902.
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 Lyman ...
We found 23 communities that share the name Lyman.
Within Michigan, the name Lyman is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Colusa 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 California community of Lyman [Colusa County].
- Glenn County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Lyman [Glenn County].
- Colorado
- Idaho
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Lyman [Madison County].
- Iowa
- Cass County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Lyman [Cass County].
- Kansas
- Maine
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Lyman [York County].
- Minnesota
- Otter Tail County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Lyman [Otter Tail County].
- Mississippi
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Lyman [Harrison County].
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- New Hampshire
- Grafton County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Lyman [Grafton County].
- North Carolina
- Duplin County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Lyman [Duplin County].
- Ohio
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lyman [Monroe County].
- Oklahoma
- Osage County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Lyman [Osage County].
- South Carolina
- Spartanburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Lyman [Spartanburg County].
- South Dakota
- Lyman County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Lyman [Lyman County].
- Texas
- Motley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lyman [Motley County].
- Utah
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Lyman [Wayne County].
- Vermont
- Washington
- Skagit County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Lyman [Skagit County].
- Wyoming
- Uinta County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Lyman [Uinta County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lyman ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lyman:
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 Kent 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 Kent 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 Lyman 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/ |