Do you know of Duncan ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Duncan. 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 Duncan.
Our sources for Duncan (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 Duncan other than they indicate that Duncan would be found somewhere in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1864 and closed in 1894.
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 Duncan ...
We found 40 communities that share the name Duncan.
There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named Duncan.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 39 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 39 communities, 37 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Tioga County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Duncan [Tioga County].
- Tioga County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arizona
- Greenlee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Duncan [Greenlee County].
- Arkansas
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Duncan [Monroe County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Duncan.
- Colorado
- Delta 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 Colorado community of Duncan [Delta County].
- Saguache County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Duncan [Saguache County].
- Connecticut
- Illinois
- Gallatin 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 Illinois community of Duncan [Gallatin County].
- Stark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Duncan [Stark County].
- Indiana
- Floyd County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Duncan [Floyd County].
- Iowa
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Duncan [Hancock County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Michigan
- Cheboygan 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 Duncan [Cheboygan 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 Duncan [Marquette County].
- Mississippi
- Bolivar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Duncan [Bolivar County].
- Missouri
- Montana
- Flathead County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Duncan [Flathead County].
- Gallatin 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 Montana community of Duncan [Gallatin County].
- Missoula 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 Montana community of Duncan [Missoula County].
- Nebraska
- Platte County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Duncan [Platte County].
- North Carolina
- Harnett County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Duncan [Harnett County].
- Rutherford 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 North Carolina community of Duncan [Rutherford County].
- Oklahoma
- Stephens County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Duncan [Stephens County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Duncan.
- Oregon
- Umatilla County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Duncan [Umatilla County].
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Duncan.
- South Carolina
- Spartanburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Duncan [Spartanburg County].
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Blount County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Duncan [Blount County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Washington
- Spokane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Duncan [Spokane County].
- West Virginia
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Duncan [Jackson County].
- Wyoming
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Duncan ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Duncan:
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 Duncan - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Allegheny 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 Allegheny 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 Duncan 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/ |