Do you know of Plainview ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Plainview. 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 Plainview.
Our sources for Plainview (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Plainview other than they indicate that Plainview would be found somewhere in Queens County, New York.
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 Plainview ...
We found 47 communities that share the name Plainview.
There is one other community in New York which is also named Plainview.
Beyond New York, we know of another 46 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In New York ...
- Nassau County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Plainview [Nassau County].
- Nassau County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Arkansas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Plainview [Arkansas County].
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Plainview [Logan County].
- White County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Plainview [White County].
- Yell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Plainview [Yell County].
- California
- Tulare County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Plainview [Tulare County].
- Colorado
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Plainview [Jefferson County].
- Georgia
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Plainview [Franklin County].
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Plainview [Warren County].
- Whitfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Plainview [Whitfield County].
- Illinois
- Macoupin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Plainview [Macoupin County].
- Iowa
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Plainview [Scott County].
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Minnesota
- Wabasha County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Plainview [Wabasha County].
- Mississippi
- Rankin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Plainview [Rankin County].
- Missouri
- Clinton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Plainview [Clinton County].
- Macon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Plainview [Macon County].
- McDonald County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Plainview [McDonald County].
- Nebraska
- Pierce County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Plainview [Pierce County].
- New Mexico
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Plainview [Monroe County].
- Oklahoma
- Greer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Plainview [Greer County].
- McCurtain County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Plainview [McCurtain County].
- Woods County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Plainview [Woods County].
- Oregon
- Deschutes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Plainview [Deschutes County].
- Linn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Plainview [Linn County].
- Multnomah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Plainview [Multnomah County].
- Pennsylvania
- Adams County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Plainview [Adams County].
- South Dakota
- Meade County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Plainview [Meade County].
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Denton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Plainview [Denton County].
- Hale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Plainview [Hale County].
- Haskell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Plainview [Haskell County].
- Houston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Plainview [Houston County].
- Jones County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Plainview [Jones County].
- Nacogdoches County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Plainview [Nacogdoches County].
- Sabine 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 Plainview [Sabine County].
- Wharton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Plainview [Wharton County].
- Virginia
- Roanoke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Plainview [Roanoke County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Plainview ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Plainview:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Plainview - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Queens 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 Queens 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 Plainview 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. |