Do you know of Longview ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Longview. 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 Longview.
Our sources for Longview (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 Longview other than they indicate that Longview would be found somewhere in Christian County, Kentucky.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1848 and closed in 1904.
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 Longview ...
We found 32 communities that share the name Longview.
There is one other community in Kentucky which is also named Longview.
Beyond Kentucky, we know of another 31 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 31 communities, 31 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kentucky ...
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Longview [Jefferson County].
- Jefferson County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Longview.
- Arkansas
- Bradley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Longview [Bradley County].
- California
- Los Angeles County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Longview [Los Angeles County].
- Colorado
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Longview [Jefferson County].
- Georgia
- Emanuel 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 Georgia community of Longview [Emanuel County].
- Habersham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Longview [Habersham County].
- Illinois
- Champaign County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Longview [Champaign County].
- Louisiana
- Franklin Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Longview [Franklin Parish].
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Dukes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Longview [Dukes County].
- Mississippi
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Longview [Monroe County].
- Oktibbeha County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Longview [Oktibbeha County].
- Pontotoc County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Longview [Pontotoc County].
- Missouri
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Longview [Franklin County].
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Longview [Jackson County].
- McDonald County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Longview [McDonald County].
- New York
- Chautauqua County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Longview [Chautauqua County].
- North Carolina
- Wake County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Longview [Wake County].
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Longview [Allegheny County].
- Tennessee
- Bedford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Longview [Bedford County].
- Texas
- Gregg County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Longview [Gregg County].
- Virginia
- Isle of Wight County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Longview [Isle of Wight County].
- Loudoun County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Longview [Loudoun County].
- Prince William County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Longview [Prince William County].
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Barbour County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Longview [Barbour County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Longview ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Longview:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Longview - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
George#&160;F. Cram Map (1905)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.
More Orphans in Christian 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 Christian 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 Longview 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/ |