Do you know of Herndon ???

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

Our sources for Herndon (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 Herndon other than they indicate that Herndon would be found somewhere in Burke County, Georgia.

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 Herndon ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Herndon.

There is one other community in Georgia which is also named Herndon.

Beyond Georgia, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Georgia ...
- Jenkins County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Herndon [Jenkins County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Baldwin 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 Alabama community of Herndon [Baldwin County].
- Arkansas
  - Craighead County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Herndon [Craighead County].
  - Greene 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 Arkansas community of Herndon [Greene County].
- California
  - Fresno County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Herndon [Fresno County].
- Florida
  - Orange 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 Florida community of Herndon [Orange County].
- Iowa
  - Guthrie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Herndon [Guthrie County].
- Kansas
  - Rawlins County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Herndon [Rawlins County].
- Kentucky
  - Christian County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Herndon [Christian County].
  - Scott 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 Kentucky community of Herndon [Scott County].
- Missouri
  - Saline County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Herndon [Saline County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Northumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Herndon [Northumberland County].
- Texas
  - Nolan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Herndon [Nolan County].
- Virginia
  - Fairfax County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Herndon [Fairfax County].
- West Virginia
  - Wyoming County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Herndon [Wyoming County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Herndon ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Herndon - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

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

Map from 1864 (unknown title/publisher)

More Orphans in Burke 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 Burke County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Herndon 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.