Do you know of Slabtown ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Slabtown. 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 Slabtown.
We found mention of Slabtown as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Boone County, Indiana.
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 1870 and closed in 1871.
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 Slabtown ...
We found 29 communities that share the name Slabtown.
There is one other community in Indiana which is also named Slabtown.
Beyond Indiana, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 28 communities, 28 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Indiana ...
- Decatur County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Slabtown [Decatur County].
- Decatur County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Lauderdale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Slabtown [Lauderdale County].
- Arkansas
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Slabtown [Grant County].
- Georgia
- Fulton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Slabtown [Fulton County].
- Idaho
- Latah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Slabtown [Latah County].
- Kentucky
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Slabtown [Henry County].
- Maryland
- Missouri
- Madison 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 Missouri community of Slabtown [Madison County].
- Texas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Slabtown [Texas County].
- New Jersey
- Salem County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Slabtown [Salem County].
- New Mexico
- Otero County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Slabtown [Otero County].
- New York
- Ohio
- Allen County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Slabtown [Allen County].
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- Armstrong County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Slabtown [Armstrong County].
- Clearfield 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 Slabtown [Clearfield County].
- Columbia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Slabtown [Columbia County].
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Slabtown [Franklin County].
- Schuylkill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Slabtown [Schuylkill County].
- Somerset County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Slabtown [Somerset County].
- Tennessee
- Rhea County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Slabtown [Rhea County].
- Texas
- Lamar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Slabtown [Lamar County].
- Virginia
- Lancaster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Slabtown [Lancaster County].
- Russell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Slabtown [Russell County].
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Slabtown [Scott County].
- Smyth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Slabtown [Smyth County].
- West Virginia
- Mingo County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Slabtown [Mingo County].
- Wisconsin
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Slabtown [Jefferson County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Slabtown ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Slabtown:
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 Boone 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 Boone County.
| Berkeley | Northern Depot |
| Cason | Pike's Crossing |
| Pontiac | |
| Dot | |
| Reese Mill | |
| Englewood | |
| Thornleysville | |
| Furnessville | |
| Ward | |
| Heath | Wheeler |
| Holmes | White Lick |
| Woodbine |
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 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 Slabtown 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/ |