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Do you know of Mayville ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Mayville. 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 Mayville.<1>

We found mention of Mayville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Tulare County, California.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1878 and closed  in 1878.

Communities Also Named Mayville ...

We found ten communities that share the name Mayville.

Within California, the name Mayville is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Columbia County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Mayville [Columbia County].
    • Maine
      • Oxford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Mayville [Oxford County].
    • Michigan
      • Tuscola County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Mayville [Tuscola County].
    • Minnesota
      • Mower County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Mayville [Mower County].
    • New Jersey
      • Cape May County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Mayville [Cape May County].
    • New York
      • Chautauqua County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Mayville [Chautauqua County].
    • North Dakota
      • Traill County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Mayville [Traill County].
    • Oregon
      • Gilliam County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Mayville [Gilliam County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Lawrence County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Mayville [Lawrence County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Dodge County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Mayville [Dodge County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mayville ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

More Orphans in  Tulare 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 Tulare County.

AlilaJohnson Tract
Alpine Village 
ArmonaKeeneysburgh
 Klink
Belleville 
BurtonLemon
 Lime Kiln
CairnsLinnell
Camp BadgerLodge Pole
Camp Kaweah 
Camp WishonNeil
Citro JunctionNew London
Cramer 
Cross CreekOval
Crowley 
 Portersville
DauntPorterville Junction
DimibaPorterville Northwest
Doyle ColonyPorterville West
Doyle 
 Quaking Aspen
East Redbanks 
East TulareStrathmore Junction
Esperanza 
EuclidTagus Ranch
 Terminus
FrazierTulare East
 Tulare Northwest
GainsTule
Giant Forest 
Goshen JunctionWambat
GrangevilleWaukeno
 Winco
HendersonWoodland
  

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.
<3>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 Mayville 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.
<4>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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