Do you know of Glenville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Glenville. 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 Glenville.
Our sources for Glenville (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 Glenville other than they indicate that Glenville would be found somewhere in Kern County, California.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1872 and closed in 1874.
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 Glenville ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Glenville.
Within California, the name Glenville is unique.
Beyond California, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, eighteen are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Russell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Glenville [Russell County].
- Arkansas
- Nevada County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Glenville [Nevada County].
- Connecticut
- Fairfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Glenville [Fairfield County].
- Delaware
- New Castle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Glenville [New Castle County].
- Kansas
- Sedgwick County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Glenville [Sedgwick County].
- Kentucky
- McLean County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Glenville [McLean County].
- Maryland
- Harford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Glenville [Harford County].
- Minnesota
- Freeborn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Glenville [Freeborn County].
- Mississippi
- Panola County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Glenville [Panola County].
- New York
- Livingston County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Glenville [Livingston County].
- Saratoga 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 New York community of Glenville [Saratoga County].
- Schenectady County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Glenville [Schenectady County].
- Westchester County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Glenville [Westchester County].
- North Carolina
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Glenville [Jackson County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Glenville.
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Glenville [York County].
- West Virginia
- Gilmer County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Glenville [Gilmer County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Glenville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Glenville:
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 Glenville - 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 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 Glenville 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/ |