Do you know of Poplar ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Poplar. 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 Poplar.
Our sources for Poplar (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 Poplar other than they indicate that Poplar would be found somewhere in Logan County, West Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1884 and closed in 1913.
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 Poplar ...
We found nineteen communities that share the name Poplar.
Within West Virginia, the name Poplar is unique.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, eighteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Tulare County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Poplar [Tulare County].
- Idaho
- Bonneville County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Poplar [Bonneville County].
- Iowa
- Kentucky
- Carter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Poplar [Carter County].
- Maryland
- Baltimore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Poplar [Baltimore County].
- Minnesota
- Cass County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Poplar [Cass County].
- Montana
- Dawson 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 Montana community of Poplar [Dawson County].
- Roosevelt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Poplar [Roosevelt County].
- North Carolina
- Mitchell County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Poplar [Mitchell County].
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Poplar.
- Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Poplar [Philadelphia County].
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Anderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Poplar [Anderson County].
- Virginia
- Caroline County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Poplar [Caroline County].
- Wisconsin
- Chippewa 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 Wisconsin community of Poplar [Chippewa County].
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Poplar [Douglas County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Poplar ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Poplar:
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 Poplar - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of West Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Logan 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 Logan 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 Poplar 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/ |