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Do you know of Beck ???

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

Our sources for Beck (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 Beck other than they indicate that Beck would be found somewhere in Wake County, North Carolina.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1882 and closed  in 1902.

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 Beck ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Beck.

Within North Carolina, the name Beck is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, 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 ...
    • Alabama
      • Covington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Beck [Covington County].
    • Arkansas
      • Crittenden County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Beck [Crittenden County].
      • Lee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Beck [Lee County].
      • Miller County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Beck [Miller County].
    • Indiana
      • Gibson 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 Indiana community of Beck [Gibson County].
    • Michigan
      • Wayne 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 Michigan community of Beck [Wayne County].
    • Missouri
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Beck [Jefferson County].
    • Montana
      • Teton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Beck [Teton County].
    • Nebraska
      • Lincoln County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Beck [Lincoln County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Beck #
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Beck.
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Beck.
    • Oregon
      • Lane 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 Oregon community of Beck [Lane County].
    • Texas
      • Lamb County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Beck [Lamb County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Beck ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Wake 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 Wake County.

AdamsKing Charles
Armco 
 Laurel Hills
Ballentine's MillsLemay
BangorLillian
BennehanLul
Booth 
BoylanMassey
BrassfieldMordecai
Burlington MillsMyatt's Mills
Burt 
 Nazareth
Cameron VillageNero
Camp PolkNew Hall Siding
CenturyNorth Raleigh
College View 
CosmaPernell
Crabtree Valley 
 Rand's Mills
DupontRockton
 Rosinburg
EwingRoyal Mills
  
FetnerSomerset Hills
Five PointSouth Raleigh
Flint 
Fuquay SpringsTeer Siding
 Temple
Glenwood HillsTriangle
Gulley's Mill 
 Vanteen
HartsvilleVarina
Hickory Grove 
 Wake
KadarWakefield
Kelvin GroveWillow Spring

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 Beck 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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