Do you know of Holden ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Holden. 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 Holden.
Our sources for Holden (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 Holden other than they indicate that Holden would be found somewhere in Goodhue County, Minnesota.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1860 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 Holden ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Holden.
Within Minnesota, the name Holden is unique.
Beyond Minnesota, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Holden.
- California
- San Joaquin County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Holden [San Joaquin County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Holden [Hillsborough County].
- Illinois
- Perry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Holden [Perry County].
- Louisiana
- Livingston Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Holden [Livingston Parish].
- Maine
- Penobscot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Holden [Penobscot County].
- Massachusetts
- Worcester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Holden [Worcester County].
- Missouri
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Holden [Johnson County].
- Ohio
- Auglaize County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Holden [Auglaize County].
- Pennsylvania
- Clarion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Holden [Clarion County].
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Holden.
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Limestone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Holden [Limestone County].
- Utah
- Millard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Holden [Millard County].
- Vermont
- Washington
- Chelan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Holden [Chelan County].
- West Virginia
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Holden [Logan County].
- Alberta
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Holden ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Holden:
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 Holden - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Goodhue 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 Goodhue County.
| Addington Spur | Lena |
| Aspelund | |
| Minneola | |
| Barr | |
| Norway | |
| Cannon Junction | |
| Cannon River Falls | Prairie Island |
| Cascade | |
| Spring Creek | |
| Fair Point | |
| Frontenac Station | Trout Brook |
| Goodhue Centre | West Red Wing |
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 Holden 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/ |