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Do you know of Mingo Flat ???

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

Our sources for Mingo Flat (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 Mingo Flat other than they indicate that Mingo Flat would be found somewhere in Randolph County, West Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1848 and closed  in 1894.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mingo Flat ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Randolph 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 Randolph County.

Aggregate 
 Morribell
Beech Run Junction 
Black RunNewton
Bosworth 
 Orlena
Cheat Bridge 
CoontsPearson
CorcoranPingley
CrickardPoe Run
 Point Mountain
Day's Mills 
 Rich Mountain
FillmoreRoaring Creek
  
GlenwynScotts
Golden RidgeStar
 Stringtown
Hickory Lick 
HomewoodTexel
 Tunnel
Kight 
 Valley Bend
Lick 
LinanWood
Long 

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 10 Mar 2024