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Do you know of Fort Clark ???

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

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

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 1846 and closed  in 1858.

Communities Also Named Fort Clark ...

We found two communities that share the name Fort Clark.

Within Florida, the name Fort Clark is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • North Carolina
      • Dare County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Fort Clark [Dare County].
    • North Dakota
      • Oliver County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Fort Clark [Oliver County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fort Clark ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in  Alachua 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 Alachua County.

BattonvilleMounteocha
  
Clear LakeNorth Gainesville
Colegrove 
ConeOak Crest
CyrilOliver Park
 Osceola
East Alachua 
 Palmer
Forest Ridge 
FranklandRidgewood
  
Gainesville EastSanta Fe Lake
Gainesville NorthSante Fe
Gainesville WestShiloh
GracySkyland Heights
 Socastee
Hammock RidgeSpring Grove
HammockStewartsville
Hydro 
 Trenton
KanaphaTungroc
  
LexingtonVillage Green
Libby Heights 
 Yular
Millhopper Center 

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>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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