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Do you know of Mapleton ???

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

Our sources for Mapleton (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 Mapleton other than they indicate that Mapleton would be found somewhere in Putnam County, Missouri.

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 Mapleton ...

We found 28 communities that share the name Mapleton.

Within Missouri, the name Mapleton is unique.

Beyond Missouri, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 28 communities, 25 are located in the United States and five are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Idaho
      • Franklin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Mapleton [Franklin County].
    • Illinois
      • Peoria County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Mapleton [Peoria County].
    • Indiana
      • Marion County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Mapleton [Marion County].
    • Iowa
      • Monona County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Mapleton [Monona County].
    • Kansas
      • Bourbon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Mapleton [Bourbon County].
    • Maine
      • Aroostook County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Mapleton [Aroostook County].
    • Michigan
      • Grand Traverse County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Mapleton [Grand Traverse County].
      • Iron County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Mapleton [Iron County].
      • Midland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Mapleton [Midland County].
    • Minnesota
      • Blue Earth County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Mapleton [Blue Earth County].
    • New Brunswick
      • 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 New Brunswick community of Mapleton.
    • New Hampshire
      • Coos County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Mapleton [Coos County].
    • New York
      • Cayuga County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Mapleton [Cayuga County].
      • Kings 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 New York community of Mapleton [Kings County].
      • Niagara County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Mapleton [Niagara County].
    • North Carolina
      • Hertford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Mapleton [Hertford County].
    • North Dakota
      • Cass County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Mapleton [Cass County].
    • Nova Scotia
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Mapleton.
    • Ohio
      • Belmont 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 Ohio community of Mapleton [Belmont County].
      • Stark County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Mapleton [Stark County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Mapleton.
    • Oregon
      • Lane County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Mapleton [Lane County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Huntingdon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Mapleton [Huntingdon County].
    • Texas
      • Houston County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Mapleton [Houston County].
    • Utah
      • Utah County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Mapleton [Utah County].
    • Virginia
      • Virginia Beach City
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Mapleton [Virginia Beach City].
    • West Virginia
      • Hardy County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Mapleton [Hardy County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Waukesha County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Mapleton [Waukesha County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mapleton ...

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

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

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

Map from 1904 (unknown title/publisher)

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Prairies East & Ozarks
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in  Putnam 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 Putnam County.

Ayersville 
 Xenia
Delpha 
 Yuma
Gehm 

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 Mapleton 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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