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Do you know of Smoke Hole ???

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

We found mention of Smoke Hole as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Pendleton County, West Virginia.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1930 and closed  in 1953.

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 Smoke Hole ...

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

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Smoke Hole.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 54/74884   (Place Name: Smoke Hole)

County: Pendleton     (FIPS State/County: 54/071)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Smoke Hole) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Pendleton 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 Pendleton County.

Box 
BranchNome
Buck Horn 
 Okey
Cave 
CreekRexrode
 Roaring
Harper's Mills 
Hunting GroundShreves
 South Mill Creek
Judy GapSweedin Hill
  
MonkeytownThorn
Mouth of Seneca 

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