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Do you know of Tulip ???

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

Our sources for Tulip (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 Tulip other than they indicate that Tulip would be found somewhere in Wayne County, West Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1888 and closed  in 1895.

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 Tulip ...

We found ten communities that share the name Tulip.

Within West Virginia, the name Tulip is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Dallas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Tulip [Dallas County].
    • Georgia
      • Chattooga 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 Georgia community of Tulip [Chattooga County].
    • Indiana
      • Greene County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Tulip [Greene County].
    • Kentucky
      • Clark 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 Kentucky community of Tulip [Clark County].
    • Louisiana
      • Claiborne Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Tulip [Claiborne Parish].
    • Missouri
      • Audrain County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Tulip [Audrain County].
    • North Carolina
      • Stokes 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 North Carolina community of Tulip [Stokes County].
    • Ohio
      • Adams County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Tulip [Adams County].
    • Texas
      • Fannin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Tulip [Fannin County].
    • Virginia
      • Frederick County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Tulip [Frederick County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Tulip ...

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

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 Tulip - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Wayne 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 Wayne County.

Adkins' MillsHustler
  
Barger HillKellog
Big SandyKellogg
Brick ChurchKrout's Creek
Bull 
 Lett
Campco 
CassieMillett
CassvilleMoses' Fork
Copleyville 
County FarmPharoah
Cove CreekPoppa
Crete 
 Queen's Ridge
Dicy 
DragRice
DunleithRound Bottom
  
EgyptSip
Eloise 
EmpireTooley
 Trace Fork
FelixTudell
Forks of Hurricane 
 White Creek
GrassyWhites Creek
  
HanyYorkville
Herbert 

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Tulip 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/









 

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