Do you know of Bloomingdale ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bloomingdale. 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 Bloomingdale.
We found mention of Bloomingdale as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Winnebago County, Wisconsin.
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 1848 and closed in 1852.
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 Bloomingdale ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Bloomingdale.
There is one other community in Wisconsin which is also named Bloomingdale.
Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 23 communities, 23 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Wisconsin ...
- Vernon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Bloomingdale [Vernon County].
- Vernon County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Bloomingdale [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
- Chatham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Bloomingdale [Chatham County].
- Illinois
- DuPage County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Bloomingdale [DuPage County].
- Indiana
- Parke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Bloomingdale [Parke County].
- Kansas
- Barton 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 Bloomingdale [Barton County].
- McPherson 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 Bloomingdale [McPherson County].
- Kentucky
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Bloomingdale [Clark County].
- Maryland
- Queen Anne's County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Bloomingdale [Queen Anne's County].
- Massachusetts
- Worcester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Bloomingdale [Worcester County].
- Michigan
- Van Buren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Bloomingdale [Van Buren County].
- New Jersey
- Passaic 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 New Jersey community of Bloomingdale [Passaic County].
- Somerset County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Bloomingdale [Somerset County].
- New York
- Essex County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Bloomingdale [Essex County].
- North Carolina
- Robeson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Bloomingdale [Robeson County].
- Ohio
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bloomingdale [Jefferson County].
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bloomingdale [Wayne County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Bloomingdale.
- Pennsylvania
- Carbon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bloomingdale [Carbon County].
- Lancaster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bloomingdale [Lancaster County].
- Luzerne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bloomingdale [Luzerne County].
- South Dakota
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Bloomingdale [Clay County].
- Tennessee
- Sullivan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Bloomingdale [Sullivan County].
- Virginia
- Henrico 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 Virginia community of Bloomingdale [Henrico County].
- Florida
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bloomingdale ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bloomingdale:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
More Orphans in Winnebago 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 Winnebago 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 Bloomingdale 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/ |