Do you know of Weldon ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Weldon. 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 Weldon.
Our sources for Weldon (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 Weldon other than they indicate that Weldon would be found somewhere in Maries County, Missouri.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1871 and closed in 1924.
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 Weldon ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Weldon.
There is one other community in Missouri which is also named Weldon.
Beyond Missouri, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 23 communities, 21 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Missouri ...
- Saint Charles County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Weldon [Saint Charles County].
- Saint Charles County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arizona
- Pima County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Weldon [Pima County].
- Arkansas
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Weldon [Jackson County].
- California
- Kern County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Weldon [Kern County].
- Colorado
- Georgia
- Colquitt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Weldon [Colquitt County].
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Decatur County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Weldon [Decatur County].
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Claiborne Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Weldon [Claiborne Parish].
- Maryland
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Weldon [Carroll County].
- Michigan
- Benzie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Weldon [Benzie County].
- Montana
- McCone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Weldon [McCone County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Weldon.
- New Jersey
- Morris County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Weldon [Morris County].
- North Carolina
- Halifax County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Weldon [Halifax County].
- Ohio
- Trumbull County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Weldon [Trumbull County].
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Weldon [Montgomery County].
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Weldon.
- Texas
- Houston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Weldon [Houston County].
- Virginia
- Pulaski County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Weldon [Pulaski County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Weldon ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Weldon:
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 Weldon - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Maries 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 Maries County.
| Cadmus | |
| Clifty Dale | Maries |
| Dan | Old Van Cleve |
| Grove Dale | Radar |
| Heck | Steen Prairie |
| High Grove | |
| Veto | |
| Lacon | Viesman |
| Light |
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 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 Weldon 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/ |