Do you know of Tipton ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Tipton. 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 Tipton.
We found mention of Tipton as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Lancaster County, Nebraska.
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.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1869 and closed in 1873.
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 Tipton ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Tipton.
Within Nebraska, the name Tipton is unique.
Beyond Nebraska, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Cleveland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Tipton [Cleveland County].
- California
- Tulare County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Tipton [Tulare County].
- Idaho
- Cassia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Tipton [Cassia County].
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Tipton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Tipton [Tipton County].
- Iowa
- Cedar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Tipton [Cedar County].
- Kansas
- Cowley 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 Tipton [Cowley County].
- Mitchell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Tipton [Mitchell County].
- Montgomery 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 Tipton [Montgomery County].
- Kentucky
- Estill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Tipton [Estill County].
- Louisiana
- Morehouse Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Tipton [Morehouse Parish].
- Michigan
- Lenawee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Tipton [Lenawee County].
- Missouri
- Moniteau County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Tipton [Moniteau County].
- New Mexico
- Ohio
- Paulding County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Tipton [Paulding County].
- Oklahoma
- Tillman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Tipton [Tillman County].
- Pennsylvania
- Blair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Tipton [Blair County].
- Tennessee
- Virginia
- West Virginia
- Nicholas County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Tipton [Nicholas County].
- Wyoming
- Sweetwater County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Tipton [Sweetwater County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Tipton ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Tipton:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Lancaster 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 Lancaster County.
| Arnold Heights | |
| Linpark | |
| Bethany Heights | Little Salt |
| Cobb | Olive Branch |
| Crounse | |
| Pecks Grove | |
| Garratt |
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Tipton 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/ |