Do you know of Shaws ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Shaws. 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 Shaws.
Our sources for Shaws (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 Shaws other than they indicate that Shaws would be found somewhere in Crawford County, Pennsylvania.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1892 and closed in 1900.
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 Shaws ...
We found two communities that share the name Shaws.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Shaws is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Shaws ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Shaws:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>
North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)
Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Shaws.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 42/69896 (Place Name: Shaws)
County: Crawford (FIPS State/County: 42/039)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Shaws) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Crawford 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 Crawford County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |