Do you know of Cedar ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cedar. 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 Cedar.
Our sources for Cedar (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Cedar other than they indicate that Cedar would be found somewhere in Pike County, Kentucky.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1874 and closed in 1881.
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 Cedar ...
We found 36 communities that share the name Cedar.
Within Kentucky, the name Cedar is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, we know of another 36 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 36 communities, 35 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Mohave County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Cedar [Mohave County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Cedar.
- California
- Colorado
- Idaho
- Twin Falls County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Cedar [Twin Falls County].
- Illinois
- Indiana
- DeKalb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Cedar [DeKalb County].
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Cedar [Johnson County].
- McPherson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Cedar [McPherson County].
- Rooks 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 Cedar [Rooks County].
- Smith County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Cedar [Smith County].
- Wabaunsee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Cedar [Wabaunsee County].
- Maine
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Cedar [Washington County].
- Massachusetts
- Norfolk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Cedar [Norfolk County].
- Michigan
- Dickinson 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 Michigan community of Cedar [Dickinson County].
- Leelanau County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Cedar [Leelanau County].
- Menominee 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 Michigan community of Cedar [Menominee County].
- Presque Isle 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 Michigan community of Cedar [Presque Isle County].
- Minnesota
- Anoka County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Cedar [Anoka County].
- Montana
- Sanders County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Cedar [Sanders County].
- Nevada
- North Carolina
- Oklahoma
- South Dakota
- Texas
- Fayette 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 Texas community of Cedar [Fayette County].
- Harris 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 Texas community of Cedar [Harris County].
- Utah
- Emery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Cedar [Emery County].
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Arizona
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cedar ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Cedar:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Kentucky (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Pike 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 Pike County.
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 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 Cedar 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/ |