Do you know of The Narrows ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about The Narrows. 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 The Narrows.<1>

We found mention of The Narrows as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Buchanan County, Missouri.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1844 and closed in 1846.

Communities Also Named The Narrows ...

We found nineteen communities that share the name The Narrows.

Within Missouri, the name The Narrows is unique.

Beyond Missouri, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of The Narrows [Jackson County].
- Arkansas
  - Carroll County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of The Narrows [Carroll County].
- Colorado
  - Morgan County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of The Narrows [Morgan County].
- Delaware
  - Sussex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of The Narrows [Sussex County].
- Florida
  - Brevard County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Florida community of The Narrows [Brevard County].
- Indiana
  - Sullivan County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of The Narrows [Sullivan County].
- Kansas
  - Osage County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of The Narrows [Osage County].
- Kentucky
  - Ohio County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of The Narrows [Ohio County].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of The Narrows.
- Maryland
  - Queen Anne's County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of The Narrows [Queen Anne's County].
- Nevada
  - Clark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of The Narrows [Clark County].
- New York
  - Cattaraugus County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of The Narrows [Cattaraugus County].
- North Carolina
  - Pender County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of The Narrows [Pender County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of The Narrows.
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of The Narrows.
- Oregon
  - Harney County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of The Narrows [Harney County].
  - Linn County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of The Narrows [Linn County].
- Virginia
  - Giles County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of The Narrows [Giles County].
  - Roanoke County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of The Narrows [Roanoke County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for The Narrows ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

More Orphans in Buchanan 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 Buchanan County.

Footnotes ...

<1>	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.
<2>	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.
<3>	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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 The Narrows 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.
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/