Do you know of Hartley ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hartley. 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 Hartley.
Our sources for Hartley (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 Hartley other than they indicate that Hartley would be found somewhere in Cedar County, Missouri.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1895 and closed in 1907.
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 Hartley ...
We found thirteen communities that share the name Hartley.
Within Missouri, the name Hartley is unique.
Beyond Missouri, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Hartley [Polk County].
- California
- Solano County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Hartley [Solano County].
- Georgia
- Peach County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Hartley [Peach County].
- Iowa
- O'Brien County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Hartley [O'Brien County].
- Kentucky
- Pike County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Hartley [Pike County].
- Maryland
- Baltimore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Hartley [Baltimore County].
- Michigan
- Gogebic County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Hartley [Gogebic County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Hartley.
- Pennsylvania
- Bedford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Hartley [Bedford County].
- York 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 Hartley [York County].
- South Dakota
- Haakon County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Hartley [Haakon County].
- Texas
- Hartley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Hartley [Hartley County].
- West Virginia
- Ritchie County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Hartley [Ritchie County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hartley ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hartley:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Map from 1904 (unknown title/publisher)
More Orphans in Cedar 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 Cedar County.
| Akard | Jerico |
| Alice | |
| Leila | |
| Balm | Listondale |
| Cedar | Mollie |
| Claire Springs | Mount Enterprise |
| Eaton | Omer |
| Fremont | Saint Helen |
| Sexson | |
| Greenport | Silver Creek |
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 Hartley 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/ |