Do you know of Zoar ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Zoar. 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 Zoar.
Our sources for Zoar (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 Zoar other than they indicate that Zoar would be found somewhere in Union County, North Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1876 and closed in 1906.
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 Zoar ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Zoar.
Within North Carolina, the name Zoar is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Coffee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Zoar [Coffee County].
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Zoar [Sussex County].
- Georgia
- Indiana
- Dubois County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Zoar [Dubois County].
- Louisiana
- Jackson Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Zoar [Jackson Parish].
- Massachusetts
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Zoar [Franklin County].
- New Mexico
- Roosevelt County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Zoar [Roosevelt County].
- New York
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Zoar.
- Ohio
- Virginia
- Chesterfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Zoar [Chesterfield County].
- Wisconsin
- Menominee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Zoar [Menominee County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Zoar ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Zoar:
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 Zoar - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Union 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 Union County.
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 Zoar 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/ |