Do you know of Glen View ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Glen View. 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 Glen View.
Our sources for Glen View (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 Glen View other than they indicate that Glen View would be found somewhere in Morris County, New Jersey.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1887 and closed in 1905.
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 Glen View ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Glen View.
There is one other community in New Jersey which is also named Glen View.
Beyond New Jersey, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In New Jersey ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Glen View [Jefferson County].
- Arkansas
- California
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Glen View [Lake County].
- Los Angeles County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Glen View [Los Angeles County].
- San Diego County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Glen View [San Diego County].
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kentucky
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Glen View [Jefferson County].
- Maryland
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Glen View [Montgomery County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Glen View.
- North Carolina
- Halifax County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Glen View [Halifax County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Glen View.
- Pennsylvania
- Tennessee
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Glen View ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Glen View:
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 Glen View - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
George#&160;F. Cram Map of New Jersey (1905)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.
More Orphans in Morris 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 Morris 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 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 Glen View 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/ |