Do you know of Clarksburg ???

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

Our sources for Clarksburg (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 Clarksburg other than they indicate that Clarksburg would be found somewhere in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1897 and closed in 1903.

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 Clarksburg ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Clarksburg.

Within Massachusetts, the name Clarksburg is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Yolo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Clarksburg [Yolo County].
- Illinois
  - Shelby County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Clarksburg [Shelby County].
- Indiana
  - Decatur County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Clarksburg [Decatur County].
- Kentucky
  - Lewis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Clarksburg [Lewis County].
- Maryland
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Clarksburg [Montgomery County].
- Michigan
  - Marquette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Clarksburg [Marquette County].
- Mississippi
  - Rankin 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 Mississippi community of Clarksburg [Rankin County].
- Missouri
  - Moniteau County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Clarksburg [Moniteau County].
  - Putnam County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Clarksburg [Putnam County].
- New Jersey
  - Monmouth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Clarksburg [Monmouth County].
- New York
  - Erie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Clarksburg [Erie County].
- Ohio
  - Belmont County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Clarksburg [Belmont County].
  - Ross County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Clarksburg [Ross County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Clarksburg.
- Pennsylvania
  - Indiana County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Clarksburg [Indiana County].
- Tennessee
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Clarksburg [Carroll County].
- West Virginia
  - Harrison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Clarksburg [Harrison County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Clarksburg ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

George#&160;F. Cram Map of Massachusetts (1901)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.

More Orphans in Berkshire 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 Berkshire County.

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 Clarksburg 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/