Do you know of Ferguson ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ferguson. 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 Ferguson.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Ferguson, so we are uncertain whether Ferguson 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 Ferguson would be found 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.
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 Ferguson ...
We found 30 communities that share the name Ferguson.
There is one other community in West Virginia which is also named Ferguson.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another 29 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 29 communities, 27 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In West Virginia ...
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Ferguson [Wayne County].
- Wayne County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Ferguson [Cherokee County].
- Arkansas
- Phillips County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Ferguson [Phillips County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Ferguson.
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Shoshone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Ferguson [Shoshone County].
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Ferguson [Marshall County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Bossier Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Ferguson [Bossier Parish].
- Maryland
- Calvert County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Ferguson [Calvert County].
- Michigan
- Alger 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 Ferguson [Alger County].
- Chippewa 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 Michigan community of Ferguson [Chippewa County].
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Saint Louis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Ferguson [Saint Louis County].
- Nevada
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Ferguson [Lincoln County].
- North Carolina
- Haywood 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 North Carolina community of Ferguson [Haywood County].
- Wilkes County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ferguson [Wilkes County].
- Ohio
- Lorain County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ferguson [Lorain County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Ferguson.
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny 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 Ferguson [Allegheny County].
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Ferguson [Fayette County].
- Perry 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 Pennsylvania community of Ferguson [Perry County].
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Ferguson.
- South Carolina
- Berkeley 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 Ferguson [Berkeley County].
- Orangeburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ferguson [Orangeburg County].
- Texas
- Jasper County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ferguson [Jasper County].
- Alabama
More Orphans in Kanawha 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 Kanawha 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 Ferguson 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. |