Do you know of Glen Carbon ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Glen Carbon. 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 Glen Carbon.
Our sources for Glen Carbon (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 Glen Carbon other than they indicate that Glen Carbon would be found somewhere in Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
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 Glen Carbon ...
We found three communities that share the name Glen Carbon.
There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named Glen Carbon.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Schuylkill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Glen Carbon [Schuylkill County].
- Schuylkill County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Glen Carbon [Shelby County].
- Illinois
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Glen Carbon [Madison County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Glen Carbon ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Glen Carbon:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Glen Carbon - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Columbia County ...
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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 Columbia County.