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Do you know of South Lake Weir ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about South Lake Weir. 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 South Lake Weir.

Our sources for South Lake Weir (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 South Lake Weir other than they indicate that South Lake Weir would be found somewhere in Marion County, Florida.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1878 and closed  in 1924.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for South Lake Weir ...

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

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 South Lake Weir - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

More Orphans in  Marion 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 Marion County.

Agnew 
 Marion Mines
Baker'sMarshville
BenedictMcAllister
BlichtonMcCain
Blue SpringMcFall
 Minehead
ChurchillMorganville
Clarksville 
CottonplantOakcrest
 Oaklawn
DaisyOcala West
 Oklawaha
Eagle Mines 
East LakeParkersburgh
EichelbergersPeoples City
ElmwoodPlaza
 Pollys Mill
FairviewProctor
Fakes 
FantvilleRock Springs
FessendenRockwell
Foster Park 
 Silver Springs Junction
GreenleafSouth Ocala
 Spring Park
HarvardSummit
HayesSunnyside
  
KimbroughWeir Park
KirklandWelshton
 West End
Lake KerrWyoma
Leitner 

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024