Do you know of Spaulding ???

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

Our sources for Spaulding (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 Spaulding other than they indicate that Spaulding would be found somewhere in Logan 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 Spaulding ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Spaulding.

There is one other community in West Virginia which is also named Spaulding.

Beyond West Virginia, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In West Virginia ...
- Mingo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Spaulding [Mingo County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Spaulding [Jefferson County].
- Florida
  - Duval County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Spaulding [Duval County].
- Illinois
  - Cook County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Spaulding [Cook County].
  - Sangamon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Spaulding [Sangamon County].
- Iowa
  - Union County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Spaulding [Union County].
- Louisiana
  - Caldwell Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Spaulding [Caldwell Parish].
- Maine
  - Aroostook County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Spaulding [Aroostook County].
- Michigan
  - Menominee 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 Michigan community of Spaulding [Menominee County].
- Minnesota
  - Todd County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Spaulding [Todd County].
- Missouri
  - Ralls 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 Spaulding [Ralls County].
- Nebraska
  - Greeley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Spaulding [Greeley County].
- Oklahoma
  - Hughes County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Spaulding [Hughes County].
- Texas
  - Hidalgo 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 Texas community of Spaulding [Hidalgo County].
- Wisconsin
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Spaulding [Jackson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Spaulding ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Logan 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 Logan 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 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 Spaulding 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.