Do you know of Mercer ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Mercer, so we are uncertain whether Mercer is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Mercer would be found somewhere in Loudoun County, Virginia.

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 Mercer ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Mercer.

Within Virginia, the name Mercer is unique.

Beyond Virginia, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
  - Suwannee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Mercer [Suwannee County].
- Iowa
  - Adams County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Mercer [Adams County].
- Kentucky
  - Muhlenberg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Mercer [Muhlenberg County].
- Maine
  - Somerset County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Mercer [Somerset County].
- Mississippi
  - Attala County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Mercer [Attala County].
- Missouri
  - Mercer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Mercer [Mercer County].
- Nebraska
  - Douglas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Mercer [Douglas County].
- North Carolina
  - Edgecombe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Mercer [Edgecombe County].
- North Dakota
  - McLean County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Mercer [McLean County].
- Ohio
  - Mercer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Mercer [Mercer County].
  - Wood 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 Ohio community of Mercer [Wood County].
- Oregon
  - Lane County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Mercer [Lane County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Mercer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Mercer [Mercer County].
- South Carolina
  - Cherokee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Mercer [Cherokee County].
  - Union 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 South Carolina community of Mercer [Union County].
- Tennessee
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Mercer [Madison County].
- Wisconsin
  - Iron County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Mercer [Iron County].

More Orphans in Loudoun 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 Loudoun County.

Belmont Park
Bollington	Jumbo

Conklin	Levi

Dulles	Mahala
	Mountain Gap
Farmwell
Foxlee	Oaklands
	Oaktree
Guilford Station
	Snickersville
Hamilton Station	Sycoline
Hoysville
	Wellesley
Irene

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Mercer 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.