Do you know of Finley ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Finley, so we are uncertain whether Finley 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 Finley 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 Finley ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Finley.

Within West Virginia, the name Finley is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Chambers County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Finley [Chambers County].
- California
  - Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Finley [Lake County].
- Kansas
  - Linn 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 Finley [Linn County].
- Kentucky
  - Clay 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 Kentucky community of Finley [Clay County].
  - Taylor County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Finley [Taylor County].
- New Jersey
  - Cumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Finley [Cumberland County].
- North Carolina
  - Caldwell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Finley [Caldwell County].
- North Dakota
  - Steele County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Finley [Steele County].
- Oklahoma
  - Pushmataha County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Finley [Pushmataha County].
- Tennessee
  - Dyer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Finley [Dyer County].
- Texas
  - Fannin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Finley [Fannin County].
- Washington
  - Benton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Finley [Benton County].
- Wisconsin
  - Juneau County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Finley [Juneau County].

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
Elk City	Roxalana
Emerald Heights
Empire	Sequoi
Eventon	Shadow Lawn
	Sliger
Fairfield	South Carbon
Ferguson	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 Finley 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.