Do you know of Darlington ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1873 and closed in 1918.

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 Darlington ...

We found 27 communities that share the name Darlington.

Within Oklahoma, the name Darlington is unique.

Beyond Oklahoma, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 23 are located in the United States and four are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Marion 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 Alabama community of Darlington [Marion County].
  - Wilcox County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Darlington [Wilcox County].
- California
  - El Dorado County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Darlington [El Dorado County].
- Florida
  - Walton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Darlington [Walton County].
- Idaho
  - Butte County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Darlington [Butte County].
- Indiana
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Darlington [Montgomery County].
- Kansas
  - Harvey 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 Darlington [Harvey County].
- Louisiana
  - Saint Helena Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Darlington [Saint Helena Parish].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Darlington.
- Maryland
  - Harford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Darlington [Harford County].
- Missouri
  - Gentry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Darlington [Gentry County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Darlington.
- New Jersey
  - Bergen County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Darlington [Bergen County].
- North Carolina
  - Halifax County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Darlington [Halifax County].
  - Rutherford 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 North Carolina community of Darlington [Rutherford County].
- Ohio
  - Muskingum County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Darlington [Muskingum County].
  - Richland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Darlington [Richland County].
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Darlington.
- Pennsylvania
  - Beaver County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Darlington [Beaver County].
  - Delaware 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 Darlington [Delaware County].
  - Westmoreland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Darlington [Westmoreland County].
- Prince Edward Island
  - Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Darlington.
- Rhode Island
  - Providence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Darlington [Providence County].
- South Carolina
  - Darlington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Darlington [Darlington County].
- Texas
  - Frio 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 Texas community of Darlington [Frio County].
- Washington
  - Snohomish County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Darlington [Snohomish County].
- Wisconsin
  - Lafayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Darlington [Lafayette County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Darlington ...

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

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 Darlington - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station

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

More Orphans in Canadian 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 Canadian 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 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 Darlington 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/