Do you know of Barclay ???

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

Our sources for Barclay (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 Barclay other than they indicate that Barclay would be found somewhere in Ontonagon County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1892 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 Barclay ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Barclay.

Within Michigan, the name Barclay is unique.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, ten are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Talladega County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Barclay [Talladega County].
- Illinois
  - Sangamon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Barclay [Sangamon County].
- Kansas
  - Osage County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Barclay [Osage County].
- Maryland
  - Queen Anne's County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Barclay [Queen Anne's County].
- Nevada
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Barclay [Lincoln County].
- Ohio
  - Trumbull County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Barclay [Trumbull County].
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Barclay.
- Pennsylvania
  - Bradford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Barclay [Bradford County].
- Texas
  - Falls County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Barclay [Falls County].
- Utah
  - Salt Lake 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 Utah community of Barclay [Salt Lake County].
- West Virginia
  - Monongalia 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 West Virginia community of Barclay [Monongalia County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Barclay ...

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

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

Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Great Lakes West
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2005
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in Ontonagon County ...

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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 Ontonagon 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 Barclay 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/