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Do you know of Maud ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1884 and closed  in 1904.

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 Maud ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Maud.

Within North Carolina, the name Maud is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Bibb County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Maud [Bibb County].
      • Colbert County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Maud [Colbert County].
    • Illinois
      • Wabash County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Maud [Wabash County].
    • Iowa
      • Allamakee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Maud [Allamakee County].
    • Kansas
      • Kingman 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 Maud [Kingman County].
      • Morton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Maud [Morton County].
      • Norton 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 Maud [Norton County].
    • Kentucky
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Maud [Washington County].
    • Louisiana
      • Caldwell Parish
      • 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 Louisiana community of Maud [Caldwell Parish].
    • Minnesota
      • Big Stone 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 Minnesota community of Maud [Big Stone County].
    • Mississippi
      • Tunica County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Maud [Tunica County].
    • Missouri
      • Shelby County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Maud [Shelby County].
    • Ohio
      • Butler County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Maud [Butler County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Pottawatomie County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Maud [Pottawatomie County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Bucks 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 Maud [Bucks County].
    • South Carolina
      • Cherokee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Maud [Cherokee County].
      • Spartanburg 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 South Carolina community of Maud [Spartanburg County].
    • Texas
      • Bowie County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Maud [Bowie County].
    • Washington
      • Stevens County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Maud [Stevens County].
    • West Virginia
      • Wetzel 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 West Virginia community of Maud [Wetzel County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Maud ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Randolph 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 Randolph County.

AconiteKemp's Mills
Asheboro SouthKildee
Asheboro West 
 Lassiter's Mills
BalfoursLevel Plains
BombayLineberry
Brower's MillsLytton
Brown 
BrunswickMarley's Mills
Buffalo FordMillikan
BullaMoffitt
BunchMoffitts Mills
Bush HillMullen
 Murrow
Cape 
CarawayNew Salem
Coles Store 
CoxPlanters
Crotts 
 Quinine
Defiance 
DerrickRachel
DeweyRalph
Dogwood AcresRandleman Junction
 Randolph
EdenReed Creek
EmpireRush
Erect 
 Sandy Creek
FloraSawyersville
Flower HillScience Hill
Fork CreekSoapstone Mountain
Foust's MillsSol
FrenchSpero
FullersSpokane
 Stone Lick
GladesboroStrieby
  
HenlyTrinity College
Hockett 
Hoover HillWestmont
HoyleWheatmore
 White House
Jacksons CreekWhynot
 Woodford
Kanoy 

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 Maud 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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