Do you know of Mayhew ???

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

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

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 1894 and closed  in 1910.

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 Mayhew ...

We found six communities that share the name Mayhew.

Within Kentucky, the name Mayhew is unique.

Beyond Kentucky, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, five are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • California
    • Sacramento County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Mayhew [Sacramento County].
  • Minnesota
    • Benton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Mayhew [Benton County].
  • Mississippi
    • Lowndes County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Mayhew [Lowndes County].
  • North Carolina
    • Iredell County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Mayhew [Iredell County].
  • Oklahoma
    • Choctaw County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Mayhew [Choctaw County].
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Mayhew.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mayhew ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

The FIPS database contains an entry for Mayhew.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 21/50934   (Place Name: Mayhew)

County: Boyd     (FIPS State/County: 21/019)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Mayhew) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Boyd 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 Boyd County.