Do you know of Barney ???

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

Our sources for Barney (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 Barney other than they indicate that Barney would be found somewhere in Major County, Oklahoma.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1902 and closed  in 1925.

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 Barney ...

We found eight communities that share the name Barney.

Within Oklahoma, the name Barney is unique.

Beyond Oklahoma, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Alabama
    • Walker County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Barney [Walker County].
  • Arkansas
    • Faulkner County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Barney [Faulkner County].
  • Georgia
    • Brooks County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Barney [Brooks County].
  • Iowa
    • Madison County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Barney [Madison County].
  • Missouri
    • Dent County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Barney [Dent County].
  • Nebraska
    • Otoe County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Barney [Otoe County].
  • New Mexico
    • Union County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Barney [Union County].
  • North Dakota
    • Richland County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Barney [Richland County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Barney ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

More Orphans in  Major County ...

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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 Major County.