Do you know of Madison ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Madison. 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 Madison.
Our sources for Madison (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 Madison other than they indicate that Madison would be found somewhere in Livingston County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1844 and closed in 1903.
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 Madison ...
We found 41 communities that share the name Madison.
There are two communities within Michigan that are also named Madison.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 39 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 39 communities, 40 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Calhoun County
- Lenawee County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Madison [Jefferson County].
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Madison [Madison County].
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Madison [Montgomery County].
- Arkansas
- Saint Francis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Madison [Saint Francis County].
- California
- Yolo County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Madison [Yolo County].
- Connecticut
- New Haven County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Madison [New Haven County].
- Florida
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Madison [Madison County].
- Georgia
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Madison [Morgan County].
- Illinois
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Madison [Madison County].
- Indiana
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Madison [Jefferson County].
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Clay 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 Madison [Clay County].
- Greenwood County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Madison [Greenwood County].
- Riley 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 Madison [Riley County].
- Maine
- Somerset County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Madison [Somerset County].
- Maryland
- Dorchester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Madison [Dorchester County].
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Madison [Madison County].
- Missouri
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Madison [Monroe County].
- Nebraska
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Madison [Madison County].
- New Hampshire
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Madison [Carroll County].
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Madison [Union County].
- New York
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Madison [Madison County].
- North Carolina
- Rockingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Madison [Rockingham County].
- Ohio
- Jackson 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 Ohio community of Madison [Jackson County].
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Madison [Lake County].
- Richland 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 Ohio community of Madison [Richland County].
- Pennsylvania
- Westmoreland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Madison [Westmoreland County].
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Madison.
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Madison [Lake County].
- Tennessee
- Davidson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Madison [Davidson County].
- Virginia
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Madison [Madison County].
- Orange 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 Virginia community of Madison [Orange County].
- West Virginia
- Boone County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Madison [Boone County].
- Wisconsin
- Dane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Madison [Dane County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Madison ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Madison:
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 Madison - 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
Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Livingston 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 Livingston 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 Madison 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/ |