Do you know of Tama ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Tama. 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 Tama.<1>

We found mention of Tama as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Meade County, South 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 1905 and closed in 1929.

Communities Also Named Tama ...

We found five communities that share the name Tama.

Within South Dakota, the name Tama is unique.

Beyond South Dakota, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
  - Liberty County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Tama [Liberty County].
- Iowa
  - Tama County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Tama [Tama County].
- Louisiana
  - Ouachita Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Tama [Ouachita Parish].
- Ohio
  - Mercer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Tama [Mercer County].
- Texas
  - Coryell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Tama [Coryell County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Tama ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

More Orphans in Meade 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 Meade County.

Bethlehem
Big Bottom	Miller
	Mowatte
Champion Siding
	Postville
Grashull
	Runkel
Horse Butte
	Smithville
Jones
Jonesville	Zeal

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/