Do you know of Davenport ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Davenport. 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 Davenport.
Our sources for Davenport (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 Davenport other than they indicate that Davenport would be found somewhere in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 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 Davenport ...
We found 22 communities that share the name Davenport.
There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Davenport.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Caldwell County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Davenport [Caldwell County].
- Caldwell County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Lowndes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Davenport [Lowndes County].
- Arkansas
- White County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Davenport [White County].
- California
- Santa Cruz County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Davenport [Santa Cruz County].
- Colorado
- Florida
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Davenport [Polk County].
- Iowa
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Davenport [Scott County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Dade County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Davenport [Dade County].
- Nebraska
- Thayer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Davenport [Thayer County].
- New Jersey
- New York
- Delaware County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Davenport [Delaware County].
- North Dakota
- Cass County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Davenport [Cass County].
- Oklahoma
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Davenport [Lincoln County].
- Texas
- Comal 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 Texas community of Davenport [Comal County].
- Red River County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Davenport [Red River County].
- Virginia
- Buchanan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Davenport [Buchanan County].
- Washington
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Davenport [Lincoln County].
- West Virginia
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Davenport ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Davenport:
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 Davenport - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Mecklenburg County ...
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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 Mecklenburg 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 Davenport 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/ |