Do you know of Shamrock ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Shamrock. 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 Shamrock.
Our sources for Shamrock (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 Shamrock other than they indicate that Shamrock would be found somewhere in Grayson County, Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1881 and closed in 1908.
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 Shamrock ...
We found 31 communities that share the name Shamrock.
There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Shamrock.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 30 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 30 communities, 28 are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Salem City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Shamrock [Salem City].
- Salem City
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- California
- Imperial County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Shamrock [Imperial County].
- Colorado
- Adams County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Shamrock [Adams County].
- Florida
- Dixie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Shamrock [Dixie County].
- Georgia
- Candler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Shamrock [Candler County].
- Illinois
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Natchitoches Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Shamrock [Natchitoches Parish].
- Maryland
- Harford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Shamrock [Harford County].
- Missouri
- Callaway County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Shamrock [Callaway County].
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- Nye County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Shamrock [Nye County].
- New York
- Onondaga County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Shamrock [Onondaga County].
- North Carolina
- Oklahoma
- Creek County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Shamrock [Creek County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Shamrock.
- Pennsylvania
- Berks 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 Pennsylvania community of Shamrock [Berks County].
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Shamrock [Fayette County].
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Shamrock [Greene County].
- Northumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Shamrock [Northumberland County].
- Somerset County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Shamrock [Somerset County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Shamrock.
- Texas
- Utah
- Weber County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Shamrock [Weber County].
- West Virginia
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Shamrock [Logan County].
- Wisconsin
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Shamrock [Jackson County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Shamrock ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Shamrock:
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 Shamrock - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Grayson 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 Grayson 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 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 Shamrock 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/ |