Do you know of Calvin ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Calvin. 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 Calvin.
Our sources for Calvin (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 Calvin other than they indicate that Calvin would be found somewhere in Hancock County, Ohio.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1889 and closed in 1893.
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 Calvin ...
We found nineteen communities that share the name Calvin.
There is one other community in Ohio which is also named Calvin.
Beyond Ohio, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Ohio ...
- Meigs County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Calvin [Meigs County].
- Meigs County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Calvin [Lawrence County].
- Georgia
- Illinois
- White County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Calvin [White County].
- Kentucky
- Bell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Calvin [Bell County].
- Louisiana
- Winn Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Calvin [Winn Parish].
- Michigan
- Cass 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 Calvin [Cass County].
- Saginaw 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 Calvin [Saginaw County].
- Montana
- North Carolina
- Burke County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Calvin [Burke County].
- Onslow 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 North Carolina community of Calvin [Onslow County].
- North Dakota
- Cavalier County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Calvin [Cavalier County].
- Oklahoma
- Hughes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Calvin [Hughes County].
- Pennsylvania
- Huntingdon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Calvin [Huntingdon County].
- South Carolina
- Chester County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Calvin [Chester County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Calvin [Lee County].
- West Virginia
- Nicholas County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Calvin [Nicholas County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Calvin ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Calvin:
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 Calvin - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Hancock 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 Hancock County.
| Benton | North Findlay |
| Casterline Spur | Oak Ridge |
| Conine | |
| Curtellis | Ridge |
| River Bridge | |
| Findlay Hill | |
| Seegers | |
| Jackson | Stuartville |
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 Calvin 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/ |