Do you know of Superior ???

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

We found mention of Superior as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Lawrence County, Ohio.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1907 and closed in 1956.

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 Superior ...

We found 24 communities that share the name Superior.

There is one other community in Ohio which is also named Superior.

Beyond Ohio, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Ohio ...
- Trumbull County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Superior [Trumbull County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Shelby County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Superior [Shelby County].
- Arizona
  - Pinal County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Superior [Pinal County].
- Colorado
  - Boulder County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Superior [Boulder County].
- Indiana
  - Parke County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Superior [Parke County].
- Iowa
  - Dickinson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Superior [Dickinson 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 Superior [Jewell County].
  - Osage County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Superior [Osage County].
- Louisiana
  - Caddo Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Superior [Caddo Parish].
- Michigan
  - Charlevoix 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 Michigan community of Superior [Charlevoix County].
  - Chippewa County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Superior [Chippewa County].
  - Houghton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Superior [Houghton County].
  - Marquette County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Superior [Marquette County].
  - Washtenaw County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Superior [Washtenaw County].
- Montana
  - Mineral County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Superior [Mineral County].
- Nebraska
  - Nuckolls County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Superior [Nuckolls County].
- Nevada
  - Nye County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Superior [Nye County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Allegheny 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 Pennsylvania community of Superior [Allegheny County].
  - Fayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Superior [Fayette County].
  - Westmoreland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Superior [Westmoreland County].
- Utah
  - Salt Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Superior [Salt Lake County].
- West Virginia
  - McDowell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Superior [McDowell County].
- Wisconsin
  - Douglas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Superior [Douglas County].
- Wyoming
  - Sweetwater County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Superior [Sweetwater County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Superior ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

The FIPS database contains an entry for Superior.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 39/75812 (Place Name: Superior)

County: Lawrence (FIPS State/County: 39/087)

Class: X2

More Orphans in Lawrence 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 Lawrence 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 Superior 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/