Do you know of Kearney ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Kearney. 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 Kearney.

We found mention of Kearney as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Laurens County, South Carolina.

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.

Communities Also Named Kearney ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Kearney.

Within South Carolina, the name Kearney is unique.

Beyond South Carolina, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Calhoun County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Kearney [Calhoun County].
- Arkansas
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Kearney [Jefferson County].
- California
  - Los Angeles 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 California community of Kearney [Los Angeles County].
- Kansas
  - Grant 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 Kansas community of Kearney [Grant County].
  - Hamilton 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 Kansas community of Kearney [Hamilton County].
  - Kearny 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 Kansas community of Kearney [Kearny County].
- Maryland
  - Garrett County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Kearney [Garrett County].
- Mississippi
  - Yazoo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Kearney [Yazoo County].
- Missouri
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Kearney [Clay County].
- Nebraska
  - Buffalo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Kearney [Buffalo County].
- New Jersey
  - Essex 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 New Jersey community of Kearney [Essex County].
- New Mexico
  - Otero County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Kearney [Otero County].
- North Carolina
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Kearney [Franklin County].
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Kearney.
- Pennsylvania
  - Bedford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Kearney [Bedford County].
  - Bucks County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Kearney [Bucks County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Kearney ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Kearney:

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Southeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 1999
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Kearney.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 45/37690 (Place Name: Kearney)

County: Laurens (FIPS State/County: 45/059)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Kearney) 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 Laurens 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 Laurens County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Kearney 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.