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Do you know of Ames ???

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

Our sources for Ames (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 Ames other than they indicate that Ames would be found somewhere in Union County, North Carolina.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1880 and closed  in 1896.

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 Ames ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Ames.

Within North Carolina, the name Ames is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Nevada County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Ames [Nevada County].
    • Colorado
      • San Miguel County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Ames [San Miguel County].
    • Illinois
      • Monroe County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Ames [Monroe County].
    • Indiana
      • Montgomery County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Ames [Montgomery County].
    • Iowa
      • Story County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Ames [Story County].
    • Kansas
      • Cloud County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Ames [Cloud County].
    • Michigan
      • Alger 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 Ames [Alger County].
      • Menominee 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 Michigan community of Ames [Menominee County].
    • Minnesota
      • Hubbard 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 Minnesota community of Ames [Hubbard County].
    • Nebraska
      • Dodge County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Ames [Dodge County].
    • New Hampshire
      • Belknap County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Ames [Belknap County].
    • New York
      • Montgomery County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Ames [Montgomery County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Major County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Ames [Major County].
    • South Dakota
      • Hand County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Ames [Hand County].
    • Texas
      • Coryell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ames [Coryell County].
      • Liberty County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ames [Liberty County].
    • West Virginia
      • Fayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Ames [Fayette County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ames ...

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

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 Ames - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

More Orphans in  Union 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 Union County.

AlbansMcCains
 Morgan's Mills
Baucoms 
BeaverdamNegrohead
Brown Creek 
 Oak Grove
Camp SuttonOakville
CleoneOsceola
Coburn's Store 
 Poortith
DosterPotter's
  
EutoRaywood
 Reuben
FaulkRichardson's Creek
 Rushing
Hemby 
HoneyShaleton
HopeSincerity
 Stevens
JudithStout
 Sunflower
Kendricks 
 Walkup
Lane's CreekWaterloo
Long's StoreWinchester
  
McCainZoar

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 Ames 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/









 

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