Do you know of Siloam ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Siloam. 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 Siloam.
Our sources for Siloam (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 Siloam other than they indicate that Siloam would be found somewhere in Iosco County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1889 and closed in 1923.
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 Siloam ...
We found nineteen communities that share the name Siloam.
Within Michigan, the name Siloam is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, eighteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Sumter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Siloam [Sumter County].
- Colorado
- Pueblo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Siloam [Pueblo County].
- Georgia
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Siloam [Greene County].
- Illinois
- Brown County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Siloam [Brown County].
- Kentucky
- Greenup County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Siloam [Greenup County].
- Maryland
- Wicomico County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Siloam [Wicomico County].
- Mississippi
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Siloam [Clay County].
- New Jersey
- Monmouth County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Siloam [Monmouth County].
- New York
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Siloam [Madison County].
- North Carolina
- Surry County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Siloam [Surry County].
- Ohio
- Gallia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Siloam [Gallia County].
- Ontario
- Tennessee
- Crockett 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 Tennessee community of Siloam [Crockett County].
- Macon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Siloam [Macon County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Wythe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Siloam [Wythe County].
- West Virginia
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Siloam ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Siloam:
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 Siloam - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Iosco 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 Iosco 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 Siloam 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/ |