Do you know of Cedarville ???

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

Our sources for Cedarville (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 Cedarville other than they indicate that Cedarville would be found somewhere in Martin County, Minnesota.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1868 and closed in 1903.

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 Cedarville ...

We found 31 communities that share the name Cedarville.

Within Minnesota, the name Cedarville is unique.

Beyond Minnesota, we know of another 31 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 31 communities, 29 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Hale County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cedarville [Hale County].
- Arkansas
  - Crawford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Cedarville [Crawford County].
  - Yell 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 Cedarville [Yell County].
- California
  - Modoc County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Cedarville [Modoc County].
- Connecticut
  - Middlesex 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 Connecticut community of Cedarville [Middlesex County].
- Idaho
  - Nez Perce 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 Idaho community of Cedarville [Nez Perce County].
- Illinois
  - Stephenson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Cedarville [Stephenson County].
- Indiana
  - Allen County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Cedarville [Allen County].
- Kansas
  - Jewell 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 Cedarville [Jewell County].
- Kentucky
  - Pike County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Cedarville [Pike County].
  - Rockcastle 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 Cedarville [Rockcastle County].
- Maryland
  - Prince George's County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Cedarville [Prince George's County].
- Massachusetts
  - Plymouth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Cedarville [Plymouth County].
- Michigan
  - Mackinac County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Cedarville [Mackinac County].
- Missouri
  - Dade County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Cedarville [Dade County].
- New Jersey
  - Cumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Cedarville [Cumberland County].
  - Salem County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Cedarville [Salem County].
- New Mexico
  - Torrance 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 New Mexico community of Cedarville [Torrance County].
- New York
  - Herkimer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Cedarville [Herkimer County].
- Ohio
  - Clinton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Cedarville [Clinton County].
  - Greene County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Cedarville [Greene County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Cedarville.
- Pennsylvania
  - Chester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Cedarville [Chester County].
- Quebec
  - Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Cedarville.
- Virginia
  - Warren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Cedarville [Warren County].
  - Washington 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 Virginia community of Cedarville [Washington County].
- Washington
  - Clark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Cedarville [Clark County].
  - Grays Harbor County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Cedarville [Grays Harbor County].
  - Whatcom County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Cedarville [Whatcom County].
- West Virginia
  - Gilmer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Cedarville [Gilmer County].
- Wisconsin
  - Marinette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Cedarville [Marinette County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cedarville ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Martin 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 Martin County.

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Cedarville 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/