Do you know of Hopkins ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hopkins. 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 Hopkins.
Our sources for Hopkins (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 Hopkins other than they indicate that Hopkins would be found somewhere in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1896.
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 Hopkins ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Hopkins.
Within Wyoming, the name Hopkins is unique.
Beyond Wyoming, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Hopkins [Jefferson County].
- Colorado
- Florida
- Georgia
- Ware County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Hopkins [Ware County].
- Kansas
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Hopkins [Butler County].
- Michigan
- Allegan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Hopkins [Allegan County].
- Kalamazoo 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 Michigan community of Hopkins [Kalamazoo County].
- Minnesota
- Hennepin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Hopkins [Hennepin County].
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Nodaway County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Hopkins [Nodaway County].
- Montana
- Mineral County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Hopkins [Mineral County].
- North Carolina
- Davidson 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 North Carolina community of Hopkins [Davidson County].
- Wake County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Hopkins [Wake County].
- Ohio
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Hopkins [Lake County].
- Oklahoma
- Cimarron County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Hopkins [Cimarron County].
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Richland County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Hopkins [Richland County].
- Virginia
- Accomack County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Hopkins [Accomack County].
- West Virginia
- Boone County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Hopkins [Boone County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hopkins ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hopkins:
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 Hopkins - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Sweetwater 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 Sweetwater County.
| Alchem | |
| Almond | Patrick |
| Filmore | Reliance Mine |
| Green River City | Stauffer Mine |
| Stauffer | |
| Husky | |
| Thayer | |
| Marston | |
| Maxon | Vermillion |
| Moss Agate | |
| Wilkins | |
| North Superior |
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 Hopkins 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/ |