Do you know of Dudley ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Dudley. 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 Dudley.
Our sources for Dudley (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 Dudley other than they indicate that Dudley would be found somewhere in Cabell County, West Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1885 and closed in 1905.
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 Dudley ...
We found 33 communities that share the name Dudley.
Within West Virginia, the name Dudley is unique.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another 33 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 33 communities, 32 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Tuscaloosa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Dudley [Tuscaloosa County].
- California
- Colorado
- Park County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Dudley [Park County].
- Georgia
- Laurens County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Dudley [Laurens County].
- Idaho
- Kootenai County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Dudley [Kootenai County].
- Illinois
- Edgar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Dudley [Edgar County].
- Effingham 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 Illinois community of Dudley [Effingham County].
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Wapello County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Dudley [Wapello County].
- Kansas
- Neosho 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 Dudley [Neosho County].
- Osborne 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 Dudley [Osborne County].
- Maine
- Aroostook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Dudley [Aroostook County].
- Massachusetts
- Worcester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Dudley [Worcester County].
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Lyon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Dudley [Lyon County].
- Missouri
- Stoddard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Dudley [Stoddard County].
- Nebraska
- New Jersey
- North Carolina
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Dudley [Wayne County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Dudley [Lincoln County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Dudley.
- Oregon
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Dudley [Jackson County].
- Pennsylvania
- Butler 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 Dudley [Butler County].
- Huntingdon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Dudley [Huntingdon County].
- South Carolina
- Chesterfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Dudley [Chesterfield County].
- South Dakota
- Fall River County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Dudley [Fall River County].
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Callahan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Dudley [Callahan County].
- Virginia
- Halifax County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Dudley [Halifax County].
- Washington
- Wisconsin
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Dudley [Lincoln County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dudley ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Dudley:
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 Dudley - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of West Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Cabell 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 Cabell 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 Dudley 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/ |