Do you know of Maynard ???

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

Our sources for Maynard (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 Maynard other than they indicate that Maynard would be found somewhere in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 and closed in 1908.

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 Maynard ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Maynard.

Within Maryland, the name Maynard is unique.

Beyond Maryland, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - DeKalb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Maynard [DeKalb County].
- Arkansas
  - Randolph County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Maynard [Randolph County].
- Georgia
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Maynard [Monroe County].
- Indiana
  - Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Maynard [Lake County].
- Iowa
  - Fayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Maynard [Fayette County].
- Kansas
  - Doniphan 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 Kansas community of Maynard [Doniphan County].
- Kentucky
  - Allen County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Maynard [Allen County].
  - Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Maynard [Lawrence County].
- Maine
  - Aroostook 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 Maine community of Maynard [Aroostook County].
- Massachusetts
  - Middlesex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Maynard [Middlesex County].
- Minnesota
  - Chippewa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Maynard [Chippewa County].
- New York
  - Oneida County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Maynard [Oneida County].
- Ohio
  - Belmont County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Maynard [Belmont County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Maynard.
- South Carolina
  - Pickens 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 South Carolina community of Maynard [Pickens County].
- Texas
  - San Jacinto County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Maynard [San Jacinto County].
- Washington
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Maynard [Jefferson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Maynard ...

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

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 Maynard - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in Anne Arundel 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 Anne Arundel 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Maynard 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.

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

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