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Do you know of Merriam Park ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Merriam Park. 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 Merriam Park.

Our sources for Merriam Park (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 Merriam Park other than they indicate that Merriam Park would be found somewhere in Ramsey County, Minnesota.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1883 and closed  in 1889.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Merriam Park ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Merriam Park - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

The FIPS database contains an entry for Merriam Park.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 27/41786   (Place Name: Merriam Park)

County: Ramsey     (FIPS State/County: 27/123)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- Merriam Park) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in  Ramsey County ...

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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 Ramsey County.

Bald Eagle JunctionNew Canada
  
ClaymontOakland
ComoOwasso
  
Daytons BluffParkway Junction
Desnoyer ParkPioneer
 Prospect Park
East Saint Paul 
Eastern HeightsRidgewood Park
Echo LakeRiverview
ElwayRose
 Round Lake
Hamline 
HarveySaint Anthony Park
Highland ParkSaint Clair
Husby SpurSoo Line Junction
  
IndustrialTrout Brook Junction
  
Lake ShoreVadnais Park
  
MacalesterWarrendale
Maryland ParkWest End
Merrill VillaWhite Bear
MidwayWilson
Murray HillWoodbury
  

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 10 Mar 2024