Do you know of Elk City ???

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

We found mention of Elk City as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Kanawha 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.

Communities Also Named Elk City ...

We found nine communities that share the name Elk City.

There is one other community in West Virginia which is also named Elk City.

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

Communities Located In West Virginia ...
- Barbour County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Elk City [Barbour County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Idaho
  - Idaho County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Elk City [Idaho County].
- Kansas
  - Jackson 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 Elk City [Jackson County].
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Elk City [Montgomery County].
- Nebraska
  - Douglas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Elk City [Douglas County].
- Oklahoma
  - Beckham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Elk City [Beckham County].
- Oregon
  - Benton 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 Oregon community of Elk City [Benton County].
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Elk City [Lincoln County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Clarion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Elk City [Clarion County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Elk City ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Elk City - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

More Orphans in Kanawha County ...

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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 Kanawha County.

Aarrons Fork	LeRoy
Ace	Lewis
	Lewiston
Ballard Station	Lock Seven
Beth	London View Heights
Big Mountain	Lurd
Blacksburg
Blakely	Magazine
Bonami	Meadowbrook Hills
Bownemont	Midwest
Brownstown	Mink Shoals
Buena Vista	Morris Fork
Buff Lick	Mount Tyler
Bunker Hill	Mucklow
Burning Springs
	Nabob
Cabin Creek Junction	Nitro Park
Calvert	Noah
Cane Fork	Nottingham
Cannelton Station
Cannelton	Oak Ridge
Capitol	Owens
Carkin
Carolina Heights	Paint Creek Junction
Chemical City	Paint Creek
Cherokee	Paragon
Chilton	Paulley
Clyde	Peabody
Coal Branch Heights	Peerless
Coalsmouth	Piatt
Cofoco	Pine Grove
Copenhaver's Mills	Point Lick Junction
Cornwell	Point Lick
Crede
	Quincy
Dana
Dart	Rawn
Dego	Red Warrior Junction
Derrick	Reed
Dismal	Reynolds
Dock	Riverbend
Drybranch	Riverlawn
Dunns	Rolling Hills
Dutch Ridge	Rome
	Rosecoal
Emerald Heights	Roxalana
Empire
Eventon	Sequoi
	Shadow Lawn
Fairfield	Sliger
Ferguson	South Carbon
Finley	Spring Fork
Forks of Little Sandy	Stoffel
Fry	Stonewall
	Sybial
Glen Elk
Glenwood	Tomsburg
Gordons	Trace Fork
Grove
	Union Mines
Hampton Heights	Upper Falls Of Coal
Harman	Upton Creek

Imperial Junction	Wallace Heights
Indian	Warrior
	West Carbon
Jordan	West Charleston
	West Dunbar
Kainey	Whitaker
Knickerbocker	Woodland Heights

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 Elk City 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.