Do you know of Glendon ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Glendon. 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 Glendon.
Our sources for Glendon (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 Glendon other than they indicate that Glendon would be found somewhere in Clarke County, Alabama.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1894 and closed in 1922.
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 Glendon ...
We found eight communities that share the name Glendon.
Within Alabama, the name Glendon is unique.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, seven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Glendon.
- Iowa
- Guthrie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Glendon [Guthrie County].
- Maine
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Glendon [Lincoln County].
- North Carolina
- Moore County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Glendon [Moore County].
- Ohio
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Glendon [Fayette County].
- Pennsylvania
- Northampton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Glendon [Northampton County].
- Schuylkill 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 Pennsylvania community of Glendon [Schuylkill County].
- West Virginia
- Braxton County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Glendon [Braxton County].
- Alberta
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Glendon ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Glendon:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Southern States
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2001
(Available from Amazon.com)
More Orphans in Clarke 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 Clarke 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 Glendon 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/ |