Do you know of Reed ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Reed. 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 Reed.
Our sources for Reed (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 Reed other than they indicate that Reed would be found somewhere in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1907 and closed in 1928.
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 Reed ...
We found 27 communities that share the name Reed.
There are four communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Reed.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Dauphin County
- Huntingdon County
- Mercer County
- Northumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Reed [Northumberland County].
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- California
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Delaware 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 Indiana community of Reed [Delaware County].
- Lawrence 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 Indiana community of Reed [Lawrence County].
- Kentucky
- Henderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Reed [Henderson County].
- Maine
- Aroostook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Reed [Aroostook County].
- Mississippi
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Greer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Reed [Greer County].
- Oregon
- Lane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Reed [Lane County].
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Reed #1
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Reed.
- Texas
- Utah
- Davis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Reed [Davis County].
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Chippewa 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 Reed [Chippewa County].
- Crawford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Reed [Crawford County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Reed ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Reed:
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 Reed - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Indiana 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 Indiana 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Reed 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/ |