Do you know of Harlem ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Harlem, so we are uncertain whether Harlem is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Harlem would be found somewhere in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana.

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 Harlem ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Harlem.

There is one other community in Louisiana which is also named Harlem.

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

Communities Located In Louisiana ...
- Plaquemines Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Harlem [Plaquemines Parish].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Monterey County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Harlem [Monterey County].
- Florida
  - Hendry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Harlem [Hendry County].
  - Putnam 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 Florida community of Harlem [Putnam County].
- Georgia
  - Columbia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Harlem [Columbia County].
- Idaho
  - Bonner County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Harlem [Bonner County].
- Illinois
  - Winnebago County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Harlem [Winnebago County].
- Michigan
  - Ottawa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Harlem [Ottawa County].
- Missouri
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Harlem [Clay County].
- Montana
  - Blaine County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Harlem [Blaine County].
- New York
  - Erie 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 New York community of Harlem [Erie County].
  - New York County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Harlem [New York County].
- North Dakota
  - Sargent County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Harlem [Sargent County].
- Ohio
  - Delaware County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Harlem [Delaware County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Harlem.
- Pennsylvania
  - Berks County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Harlem [Berks County].
- Texas
  - Fort Bend County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Harlem [Fort Bend County].

More Orphans in Vermilion Parish ...

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 Vermilion Parish.

Cow Island
	Milton
Gregg
	Ramsey
Haire
	Shell Beach
Lampman
Laurents	Tortue

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 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 Harlem 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 parish. 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.