Do you know of Barclay ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Barclay, so we are uncertain whether Barclay 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 Barclay would be found somewhere in Monongalia County, West 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 Barclay ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Barclay.

Within West Virginia, the name Barclay is unique.

Beyond West Virginia, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, ten are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Talladega County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Barclay [Talladega County].
- Illinois
  - Sangamon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Barclay [Sangamon County].
- Kansas
  - Osage County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Barclay [Osage County].
- Maryland
  - Queen Anne's County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Barclay [Queen Anne's County].
- Michigan
  - Ontonagon 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 Michigan community of Barclay [Ontonagon County].
- Nevada
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Barclay [Lincoln County].
- Ohio
  - Trumbull County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Barclay [Trumbull 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 Barclay.
- Pennsylvania
  - Bradford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Barclay [Bradford County].
- Texas
  - Falls County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Barclay [Falls County].
- Utah
  - Salt Lake 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 Utah community of Barclay [Salt Lake County].

More Orphans in Monongalia 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 Monongalia County.

Andy	Laurel Iron Works
	Lemley
Beechwood	Low Gap
Brady
	Mona
Center
Charlotte	Saint Lee
	Shriver
Duke	Statler Run

Flickersville	Uneva

Guston	Vanvoorhis

Iron Bridge	White Day
	Wise

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 Barclay 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.