Do you know of Clarkson ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Clarkson. 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 Clarkson.
Our sources for Clarkson (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 Clarkson other than they indicate that Clarkson would be found somewhere in Kern County, California.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 and closed in 1891.
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 Clarkson ...
We found 22 communities that share the name Clarkson.
Within California, the name Clarkson is unique.
Beyond California, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 22 communities, 21 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Idaho
- Bingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Clarkson [Bingham County].
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Clarkson [Warren County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Grayson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Clarkson [Grayson County].
- Maryland
- Howard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Clarkson [Howard County].
- Mississippi
- Webster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Clarkson [Webster County].
- Missouri
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Clarkson [Lawrence County].
- Nebraska
- Colfax County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Clarkson [Colfax County].
- New York
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Clarkson [Monroe County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Clarkson.
- South Carolina
- Chester County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Clarkson [Chester County].
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Clarkson [Washington County].
- Texas
- Milam County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Clarkson [Milam County].
- Virginia
- Culpeper County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Clarkson [Culpeper County].
- Wisconsin
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Clarkson ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Clarkson:
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 Clarkson - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Kern 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 Kern 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 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 Clarkson 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/ |