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Do you know of Juniata ???

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

Our sources for Juniata (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Juniata other than they indicate that Juniata would be found somewhere in Surry County, North Carolina.

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 Juniata ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Juniata.

Within North Carolina, the name Juniata is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Colorado
      • Pueblo 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 Colorado community of Juniata [Pueblo County].
    • Iowa
      • Buena Vista County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Juniata [Buena Vista County].
    • Kansas
      • 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 Kansas community of Juniata [Lane County].
      • Lincoln County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Juniata [Lincoln County].
      • Pottawatomie County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Juniata [Pottawatomie County].
    • Michigan
      • Tuscola County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Juniata [Tuscola County].
    • Nebraska
      • Adams County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Juniata [Adams County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Blair County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Juniata [Blair County].
      • Fayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Juniata [Fayette County].
      • Perry 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 Juniata [Perry County].
      • Philadelphia County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Juniata [Philadelphia County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Juniata ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Juniata - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Surry 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 Surry County.

Alberty 
 Judesville
Belo 
BirchKapps Mill
Blevins Store 
BlissLaurel Bluff
Byrds 
 McLaurin
CaricoMecca
CodyMoser
Cross RoadMosley
  
DeronOlive Mount
  
EdwardsvillePerch
  
Fairview Cross RoadsSamuel
Flat ShoalScull Camp
ForgeStoney Ridge
  
Good SpringTurner's Mountain
  
HarbourValentia
Hay StackVenable
Hazel 
HolyfieldWesley
HutchensWhite Sulphur Springs

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 Juniata 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.









 

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