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Do you know of Clifford ???

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

Our sources for Clifford (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 Clifford other than they indicate that Clifford would be found somewhere in Becker County, Minnesota.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1888 and closed  in 1911.

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 Clifford ...

We found 21 communities that share the name Clifford.

Within Minnesota, the name Clifford is unique.

Beyond Minnesota, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 21 communities, twenty are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Colorado
      • Lincoln County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Clifford [Lincoln County].
    • Illinois
      • Williamson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Clifford [Williamson County].
    • Indiana
      • Bartholomew County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Clifford [Bartholomew County].
    • Kansas
      • Smith 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 Kansas community of Clifford [Smith County].
    • Kentucky
      • Lawrence County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Clifford [Lawrence County].
    • Louisiana
      • Webster Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Clifford [Webster Parish].
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore City
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Clifford [Baltimore City].
    • Massachusetts
      • Bristol County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Clifford [Bristol County].
    • Michigan
      • Lapeer County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Clifford [Lapeer County].
    • Mississippi
      • Bolivar County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Clifford [Bolivar County].
    • Missouri
      • Polk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Clifford [Polk County].
    • Nevada
      • Nye County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Clifford [Nye County].
    • New York
      • Oswego County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Clifford [Oswego County].
    • North Dakota
      • Traill County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Clifford [Traill County].
    • Ohio
      • Scioto County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Clifford [Scioto County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Clifford.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Snyder 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 Pennsylvania community of Clifford [Snyder County].
      • Susquehanna County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Clifford [Susquehanna County].
    • Texas
      • Collingsworth 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 Texas community of Clifford [Collingsworth County].
    • Virginia
      • Amherst County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Clifford [Amherst County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Lincoln County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Clifford [Lincoln County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Clifford ...

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

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 Clifford - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Becker 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 Becker County.

Detroit City 
 McHugh
Erie 
EuniceRuneberg
  
JarvisShell Lake
Johnson 
 Tegneer
Lake CenterToad Lake
Linnell 

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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Clifford 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/









 

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