Do you know of Calhoun ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Calhoun. 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 Calhoun.
Our sources for Calhoun (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 Calhoun other than they indicate that Calhoun would be found somewhere in Madison County, Mississippi.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1858 and closed in 1919.
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 Calhoun ...
We found 26 communities that share the name Calhoun.
There are two communities within Mississippi that are also named Calhoun.
Beyond Mississippi, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 25 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Mississippi ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Lowndes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Calhoun [Lowndes County].
- Arkansas
- Colorado
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Calhoun [Washington County].
- Georgia
- Gordon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Calhoun [Gordon County].
- Illinois
- Richland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Calhoun [Richland County].
- Iowa
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Calhoun [Harrison County].
- Kansas
- Cheyenne 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 Calhoun [Cheyenne County].
- Shawnee 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 Calhoun [Shawnee County].
- Kentucky
- McLean County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Calhoun [McLean County].
- Louisiana
- Ouachita Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Calhoun [Ouachita Parish].
- Missouri
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Calhoun [Henry County].
- Nebraska
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Calhoun.
- North Carolina
- Oklahoma
- Le Flore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Calhoun [Le Flore County].
- South Carolina
- Pickens County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Calhoun [Pickens County].
- Tennessee
- Coffee 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 Tennessee community of Calhoun [Coffee County].
- McMinn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Calhoun [McMinn County].
- Texas
- West Virginia
- Barbour County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Calhoun [Barbour County].
- Wisconsin
- Chippewa 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 Wisconsin community of Calhoun [Chippewa County].
- Waukesha County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Calhoun [Waukesha County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Calhoun ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Calhoun:
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 Calhoun - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Madison 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 Madison County.
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 Calhoun 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/ |