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Do you know of Leeds Center ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Leeds Center. 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 Leeds Center. Our sources for Leeds Center (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Leeds Center other than they indicate that Leeds Center would be found somewhere in Columbia County, Wisconsin. 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 Leeds Center ...We found one communities that share the name Leeds Center. Within Wisconsin, the name Leeds Center is unique. Beyond Wisconsin, there is another community also named Leeds Center in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Leeds Center ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Leeds Center: Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Leeds Center - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned The FIPS database contains an entry for Leeds Center. Referenced FIPS Records ... FIPS Code: 55/43150 (Place Name: Leeds Center) County: Columbia (FIPS State/County: 55/021) Class: U8 Identifies a populated place (in this case, Leeds Center) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). More Orphans in Columbia 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 Columbia County. Footnotes ...
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