Do you know of Newman ???

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

Our sources for Newman (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 Newman other than they indicate that Newman would be found somewhere in Chesterfield County, South Carolina.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1881 and closed in 1901.

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 Newman ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Newman.

Within South Carolina, the name Newman is unique.

Beyond South Carolina, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Stanislaus County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Newman [Stanislaus County].
- Georgia
  - Cobb 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 Georgia community of Newman [Cobb County].
- Idaho
  - Bonner County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Newman [Bonner County].
- Illinois
  - Douglas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Newman [Douglas County].
- Kansas
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Newman [Jefferson County].
- Kentucky
  - Daviess County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Newman [Daviess County].
- Louisiana
  - Bienville Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Newman [Bienville Parish].
- Mississippi
  - Hinds County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Newman [Hinds County].
- New Mexico
  - Otero County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Newman [Otero County].
- New York
  - 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 York community of Newman [Essex County].
- North Dakota
  - Cass County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Newman [Cass County].
- Ohio
  - Stark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Newman [Stark County].
- Texas
  - El Paso County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Newman [El Paso County].
  - Fisher County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Newman [Fisher County].
- Virginia
  - Hanover County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Newman [Hanover County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Newman ...

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

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 Newman - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in Chesterfield 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 Chesterfield 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 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 Newman 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/