Do you know of Hamlin ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hamlin. 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 Hamlin.
Our sources for Hamlin (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 Hamlin other than they indicate that Hamlin would be found somewhere in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1862 and closed in 1892.
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 Hamlin ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Hamlin.
Within Wisconsin, the name Hamlin is unique.
Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Hamlin.
- Arkansas
- Cross County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Hamlin [Cross County].
- Iowa
- Audubon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Hamlin [Audubon County].
- Kansas
- Brown County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Hamlin [Brown County].
- Kentucky
- Calloway County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Hamlin [Calloway County].
- Louisiana
- Sabine Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Hamlin [Sabine Parish].
- Maine
- Aroostook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Hamlin [Aroostook County].
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Tunica County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Hamlin [Tunica County].
- New York
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Hamlin [Monroe County].
- North Dakota
- Sargent County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Hamlin [Sargent County].
- Pennsylvania
- Lebanon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Hamlin [Lebanon County].
- McKean 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 Pennsylvania community of Hamlin [McKean County].
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Hamlin [Wayne County].
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Hamlin.
- Texas
- Jones County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Hamlin [Jones County].
- Virginia
- Russell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Hamlin [Russell County].
- West Virginia
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Hamlin [Lincoln County].
- Alberta
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hamlin ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hamlin:
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 Hamlin - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Trempealeau 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 Trempealeau County.
| Decorah Prairie | |
| Linderman's | |
| Glasgow | |
| Scotia | |
| Home | South Bend |
| Hooker |
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Hamlin 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/ |