Do you know of Frederick ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Frederick. 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 Frederick.
Our sources for Frederick (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 Frederick other than they indicate that Frederick would be found somewhere in Fayette County, West Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1878 and closed in 1891.
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 Frederick ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Frederick.
Within West Virginia, the name Frederick is unique.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Frederick.
- Colorado
- Weld County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Frederick [Weld County].
- Florida
- Illinois
- Schuyler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Frederick [Schuyler County].
- Kansas
- Maryland
- Frederick County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Frederick [Frederick County].
- Michigan
- Macomb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Frederick [Macomb County].
- North Carolina
- Beaufort County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Frederick [Beaufort County].
- Ohio
- Knox 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 Ohio community of Frederick [Knox County].
- Mahoning 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 Ohio community of Frederick [Mahoning County].
- Miami County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Frederick [Miami County].
- Scioto County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Frederick [Scioto County].
- Oklahoma
- Tillman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Frederick [Tillman County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Frederick.
- Pennsylvania
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Frederick [Montgomery County].
- South Dakota
- Brown County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Frederick [Brown County].
- British Columbia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Frederick ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Frederick:
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 Frederick - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned
More Orphans in Fayette 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 Fayette 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 Frederick 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/ |