Do you know of Inman ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Inman. 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 Inman.
Our sources for Inman (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 Inman other than they indicate that Inman would be found somewhere in Franklin County, New York.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1887 and closed in 1945.
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 Inman ...
We found fourteen communities that share the name Inman.
Within New York, the name Inman is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Colorado
- Georgia
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Inman [Fayette County].
- Illinois
- Gallatin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Inman [Gallatin County].
- Kansas
- McPherson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Inman [McPherson County].
- Ness 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 Inman [Ness County].
- Stafford 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 Inman [Stafford County].
- Nebraska
- Holt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Inman [Holt County].
- Nevada
- Mineral County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Inman [Mineral County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Inman.
- South Carolina
- Spartanburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Inman [Spartanburg County].
- Tennessee
- Virginia
- Wise County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Inman [Wise County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Inman ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Inman:
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 Inman - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
The FIPS database contains an entry for Inman.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 36/37506 (Place Name: Inman)
County: Franklin (FIPS State/County: 36/033)
Class: U6
Identifies a populated place (ie- Inman) that is wholly or substantially located outside the boundaries of any incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) that has an authoritative common name recognized by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Franklin 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 Franklin 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 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 Inman 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/ |