Do you know of Mathews ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Mathews, so we are uncertain whether Mathews is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Mathews would be found somewhere in Richland County, North Dakota.

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 Mathews ...

We found nine communities that share the name Mathews.

Within North Dakota, the name Mathews is unique.

Beyond North Dakota, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Lauderdale County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Mathews [Lauderdale County].
  - Montgomery 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 Mathews [Montgomery County].
- Indiana
  - Morgan 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 Indiana community of Mathews [Morgan County].
- Louisiana
  - Lafourche Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Mathews [Lafourche Parish].
- Maryland
  - Baltimore 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 Maryland community of Mathews [Baltimore County].
  - Frederick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Mathews [Frederick County].
- South Carolina
  - Greenwood 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 Mathews [Greenwood County].
- Utah
  - Salt Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Mathews [Salt Lake County].
- Virginia
  - Mathews County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Mathews [Mathews County].

More Orphans in Richland 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 Richland County.

DeVillo
Downing	Sewall
	Seymour
Fletcher	Stevensons
Fort Abercrombie
	Theed
Homestead
	Veblen Junction
Keystone
Kloeppel	Wahpeton Junction
Kongsberg	White Rock
	Woodhull
Lehigh	Woodruff

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 Mathews 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.