Do you know of Amboy ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Amboy. 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 Amboy.<1>

We found mention of Amboy as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Otter Tail County, Minnesota.

Communities Also Named Amboy ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Amboy.

There is one other community in Minnesota which is also named Amboy.

Beyond Minnesota, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Minnesota ...
- Blue Earth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Amboy [Blue Earth County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Pulaski County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Amboy [Pulaski County].
- California
  - San Bernardino County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Amboy [San Bernardino County].
- Georgia
  - Turner County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Amboy [Turner County].
  - Wilcox 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 Georgia community of Amboy [Wilcox County].
- Illinois
  - Lee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Amboy [Lee County].
- Indiana
  - Miami County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Amboy [Miami County].
- Iowa
  - Jasper County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Amboy [Jasper County].
- Kansas
  - Rooks County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Amboy [Rooks County].
- Michigan
  - Hillsdale County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Amboy [Hillsdale County].
- Nebraska
  - Webster County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Amboy [Webster County].
- New York
  - Onondaga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Amboy [Onondaga County].
- North Carolina
  - Chowan County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Amboy [Chowan County].
- Ohio
  - Ashtabula County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Amboy [Ashtabula County].
- South Dakota
  - Sanborn County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Amboy [Sanborn County].
- Washington
  - Clark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Amboy [Clark County].
- West Virginia
  - Preston County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Amboy [Preston County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Amboy ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Amboy:

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Amboy - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned

More Orphans in Otter Tail 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 Otter Tail County.

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 Amboy 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.