Do you know of Star ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Star. 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 Star.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Star, so we are uncertain whether Star is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Star would be found somewhere in Upshur 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 Star ...
We found 29 communities that share the name Star.
There is one other community in West Virginia which is also named Star.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 28 communities, 27 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In West Virginia ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Lamar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Star [Lamar County].
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Star.
- Florida
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Star [Jackson County].
- Idaho
- Ada County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Star [Ada County].
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Graham 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 Star [Graham 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 Star [Greenwood County].
- Stevens County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Star [Stevens County].
- Louisiana
- Assumption Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Star [Assumption Parish].
- Avoyelles Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Star [Avoyelles Parish].
- Plaquemines Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Star [Plaquemines Parish].
- Michigan
- Alger County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Star [Alger County].
- Mississippi
- Rankin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Star [Rankin County].
- Missouri
- Montana
- Glacier County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Star [Glacier County].
- Nebraska
- Holt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Star [Holt County].
- New Mexico
- Guadalupe County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Star [Guadalupe County].
- North Carolina
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Star [Montgomery County].
- Oklahoma
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Star.
- Tennessee
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Star [Wayne County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Star [Carroll County].
- Wisconsin
- Alabama
More Orphans in Upshur 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 Upshur County.
| Adrian Junction | |
| Magnolia | |
| Cos | McCue |
| Miller's | |
| Dell | |
| Newlon | |
| Fishing Camp | Nixon |
| Gawthrop | Ours Mill |
| Hampton Junction | Post Mill |
| Hinkle | |
| Hinkle's Mills | Spruce |
| Stillman | |
| Indian Camp | Strader |
| Ivanhoe | Straight Fork |
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Star 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. |