Do you know of Kenton ???

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

Our sources for Kenton (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Kenton other than they indicate that Kenton would be found somewhere in Doddridge 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 Kenton ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Kenton.

Within West Virginia, the name Kenton is unique.

Beyond West Virginia, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Delaware
  - Kent County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Kenton [Kent County].
- Illinois
  - Cook County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Kenton [Cook County].
- Kansas
  - Geary 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 Kenton [Geary County].
  - Greenwood 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 Kenton [Greenwood County].
- Kentucky
  - Kenton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Kenton [Kenton County].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Kenton.
- Michigan
  - Houghton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Kenton [Houghton County].
- Missouri
  - Christian 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 Missouri community of Kenton [Christian County].
  - Scott County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Kenton [Scott County].
- Ohio
  - Hardin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Kenton [Hardin County].
- Oklahoma
  - Cimarron County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Kenton [Cimarron County].
- Oregon
  - Multnomah County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Kenton [Multnomah County].
- Tennessee
  - Gibson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Kenton [Gibson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Kenton ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Doddridge 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 Doddridge County.

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Kenton 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.