Do you know of Hume ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hume. 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 Hume.<1>
We found mention of Hume as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Slope County, North Dakota.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1908 and closed in 1917.
Communities Also Named Hume ...
We found thirteen communities that share the name Hume.
Within North Dakota, the name Hume is unique.
Beyond North Dakota, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, eleven are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Illinois
- Edgar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Hume [Edgar County].
- Kentucky
- Boone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Hume [Boone County].
- Missouri
- Bates County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Hume [Bates County].
- New York
- Allegany County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Hume [Allegany County].
- Ohio
- Allen County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Hume [Allen County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Hume.
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Hume.
- Texas
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Hume [Cherokee County].
- Virginia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hume ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hume:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
More Orphans in Slope 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 Slope County.
| Mineral Springs | |
| Slope Center |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |