Do you know of Mount Moriah ???

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

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

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.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1868 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 Mount Moriah ...

We found 21 communities that share the name Mount Moriah.

Within Delaware, the name Mount Moriah is unique.

Beyond Delaware, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 21 communities, twenty are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Butler County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Mount Moriah [Butler County].
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Mount Moriah [Clay County].
  - Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Mount Moriah [Lawrence County].
- Arkansas
  - Hot Spring County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Mount Moriah [Hot Spring County].
  - Nevada County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Mount Moriah [Nevada County].
  - Pike County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Mount Moriah [Pike County].
- Indiana
  - Brown 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 Indiana community of Mount Moriah [Brown County].
- Kansas
  - Johnson 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 Kansas community of Mount Moriah [Johnson County].
  - Montgomery County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Mount Moriah [Montgomery County].
- Louisiana
  - Jackson Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Mount Moriah [Jackson Parish].
- Maryland
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Mount Moriah [Washington County].
- Mississippi
  - Tippah County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Mount Moriah [Tippah County].
- Missouri
  - Harrison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Mount Moriah [Harrison County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
  - Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Mount Moriah.
- Ohio
  - Clermont County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Mount Moriah [Clermont County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Philadelphia 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 Mount Moriah [Philadelphia County].
- Tennessee
  - Benton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Mount Moriah [Benton County].
  - DeKalb 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 Tennessee community of Mount Moriah [DeKalb County].
  - Fayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Mount Moriah [Fayette County].
  - Obion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Mount Moriah [Obion County].
- West Virginia
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Mount Moriah [Jackson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mount Moriah ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in Kent 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 Kent County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Mount Moriah 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/