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Do you know of Agnew ???

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

Our sources for Agnew (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 Agnew other than they indicate that Agnew would be found somewhere in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1881 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 Agnew ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Agnew.

There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named Agnew.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nine communities, nine are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

In addition to the above occurrences of Agnew, we know of another community located outside of the United States and Canada.

  • Communities Located In 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 Agnew [Allegheny County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Santa Clara County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Agnew [Santa Clara County].
    • Florida
      • Marion 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 Florida community of Agnew [Marion County].
    • Illinois
      • Whiteside County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Agnew [Whiteside County].
    • Manitoba
      • Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Agnew.
    • Michigan
      • Ottawa County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Agnew [Ottawa County].
    • Nebraska
      • Lancaster County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Agnew [Lancaster County].
    • Washington
      • Clallam County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Agnew [Clallam County].
    • West Virginia
      • Fayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Agnew [Fayette County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Ashland 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 Wisconsin community of Agnew [Ashland County].
  • Communities Beyond North America ...
    • Australia
      • We haven't found the location of this Agnew

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Agnew ...

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

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 Agnew - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Beaver 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 Beaver County.

Andrews PlanLogan
 Logstown
Baker's Landing 
Banard TownMacArthur
Barret PlanMeadow Wood
BeltonMoss Plan
Brighton 
Brown'sOakwood
Brush Creek 
 Parkgate
Caylor's FerryPleasantview
ChippewaPoe
Clinton 
ColonaRacine
Cook's FerryRedstone
 Remington
Dawson RidgeRiverside
Dry RunRock Point
 Rowe
Ellwood Junction 
Ethel LandingService
 Shafer's
French PointShannopin's
 Shiner
Geneva HillSteffins Hill
Glenwall VillageSunset Hills
Grand View 
Green GardenWallace Run
 Walnut
HighlandWater Cure
HillcrestWatt's Mill
Homewood JunctionWest Aliquippa
 West Bridgewater
KiasolaWest Darlington
KnoxWest Economy
KobutaWest Ellwood Junction
 West Ellwood
Laughlin CornerWest Rochester
LegionvilleWickham Village
Limeton 
LinmoreZeller

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 Agnew 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/









 

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