Do you know of Fleming ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fleming. 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 Fleming.
Our sources for Fleming (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 Fleming other than they indicate that Fleming would be found somewhere in Centre County, Pennsylvania.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1842.
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 Fleming ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Fleming.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Fleming is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Hot Spring County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Fleming [Hot Spring County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Fleming.
- Colorado
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Fleming [Logan County].
- Florida
- Georgia
- Indiana
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Fleming [Jackson County].
- Kansas
- Crawford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Fleming [Crawford County].
- Kentucky
- Letcher County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Fleming [Letcher County].
- Michigan
- Livingston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Fleming [Livingston County].
- Missouri
- Ray County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Fleming [Ray County].
- New Mexico
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Fleming [Grant County].
- New York
- Cayuga County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fleming [Cayuga County].
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Fleming [Washington County].
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Fleming.
- Texas
- Comanche County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Fleming [Comanche County].
- West Virginia
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Fleming [Wayne County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fleming ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fleming:
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 Fleming - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
The FIPS database contains an entry for Fleming.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 42/26288 (Place Name: Fleming (corporate and RR name Unionville))
County: Centre (FIPS State/County: 42/027)
Class: C4
More Orphans in Centre 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 Centre 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Fleming 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/ |