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Do you know of Upton ???

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

Our sources for Upton (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Upton other than they indicate that Upton would be found somewhere in Blue Earth County, Minnesota.

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 Upton ...

We found 30 communities that share the name Upton.

Within Minnesota, the name Upton is unique.

Beyond Minnesota, we know of another 30 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 30 communities, 28 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Etowah County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Upton [Etowah County].
      • Marshall County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Upton [Marshall County].
    • California
      • Siskiyou County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Upton [Siskiyou County].
    • Georgia
      • Coffee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Upton [Coffee County].
    • Illinois
      • Lake 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 Illinois community of Upton [Lake County].
    • Indiana
      • Posey County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Upton [Posey County].
    • Kansas
      • Miami 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 Upton [Miami County].
      • Phillips 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 Upton [Phillips County].
    • Kentucky
      • Hardin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Upton [Hardin County].
    • Maine
      • Oxford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Upton [Oxford County].
    • Massachusetts
      • Worcester County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Upton [Worcester County].
    • Michigan
      • Clare 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 Michigan community of Upton [Clare County].
    • Mississippi
      • Simpson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Upton [Simpson County].
    • Missouri
      • Scotland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Upton [Scotland County].
      • Texas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Upton [Texas County].
    • Nebraska
      • Custer County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Upton [Custer County].
    • New Jersey
      • Burlington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Upton [Burlington County].
    • New Mexico
      • Roosevelt County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Upton [Roosevelt County].
    • New York
      • Suffolk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Upton [Suffolk County].
    • North Carolina
      • Caldwell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Upton [Caldwell County].
    • Ohio
      • Sandusky County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Upton [Sandusky County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Delaware County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Upton [Delaware County].
      • Franklin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Upton [Franklin County].
    • Prince Edward Island
      • Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Upton.
    • Quebec
      • Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Upton.
    • Texas
      • Bastrop County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Upton [Bastrop County].
    • Utah
      • Beaver County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Upton [Beaver County].
      • Summit County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Upton [Summit County].
    • West Virginia
      • Marion County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Upton [Marion County].
    • Wyoming
      • Weston County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Upton [Weston County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Upton ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Blue Earth 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 Blue Earth County.

Bradley'sLortz
Bromling 
Butternut ValleyMadison East
 Mankato Junction
Castle GardenMaple River
CerescoMedo
CrayMinneopa
 Myrna
Danville 
DecoriaPerch Lake
 Pleasant Mounds
Eagle Lake Station 
 Rapidan Mills
Hawkins 
Hill TrackSherman
HopeSouth Bend
  
IcelandTivoli
  
LimeWatters
Little CobbWells Junction

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 Upton 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.









 

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