Do you know of Port Hope ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Port Hope. 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 Port Hope.

Our sources for Port Hope (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 Port Hope other than they indicate that Port Hope would be found somewhere in Columbia County, Wisconsin.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1849 and closed  in 1901.

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 Port Hope ...

We found two communities that share the name Port Hope.

Within Wisconsin, the name Port Hope is unique.

Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these two communities, one is located in the United States and the other in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Michigan
    • Huron County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Port Hope [Huron County].
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Port Hope.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Port Hope ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Port Hope - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

More Orphans in  Columbia County ...

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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.