Do you know of Moorefield ???

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

We found mention of Moorefield as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Marion County, Indiana.

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.

Communities Also Named Moorefield ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Moorefield.

There is one other community in Indiana which is also named Moorefield.

Beyond Indiana, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, ten are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Located In Indiana ...
- Switzerland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Moorefield [Switzerland County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Chambers County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Moorefield [Chambers County].
  - Talladega County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Moorefield [Talladega County].
- Arkansas
  - Independence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Moorefield [Independence County].
- Kentucky
  - Nicholas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Moorefield [Nicholas County].
- Nebraska
  - Frontier County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Moorefield [Frontier County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Moorefield.
- Ohio
  - Clark 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 Ohio community of Moorefield [Clark County].
  - Harrison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Moorefield [Harrison County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Moorefield.
- South Carolina
  - Berkeley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Moorefield [Berkeley County].
- West Virginia
  - Hardy County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Moorefield [Hardy County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Moorefield ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Moorefield - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

The FIPS database contains an entry for Moorefield.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 18/50904 (Place Name: Moorefield)

County: Marion (FIPS State/County: 18/097)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- Moorefield) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in Marion 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 Marion 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 Moorefield 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.