Do you know of Carbon ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Carbon. 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 Carbon.<1>
Our sources for Carbon (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 Carbon other than they indicate that Carbon would be found somewhere in Carbon County, Pennsylvania.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1857 and closed in 1914.
Communities Also Named Carbon ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Carbon.
There are four communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Carbon.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, seventeen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Bradford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Carbon [Bradford County].
- Lawrence County
- Mercer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Carbon [Mercer County].
- Westmoreland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Carbon [Westmoreland County].
- Bradford County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Carbon.
- California
- Shasta County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Carbon [Shasta County].
- Illinois
- Saint Clair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Carbon [Saint Clair County].
- Indiana
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Carbon [Clay County].
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Crawford County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Carbon [Crawford County].
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Carbon [Jackson County].
- Missouri
- Macon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Carbon [Macon County].
- Oklahoma
- Pittsburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Carbon [Pittsburg County].
- Texas
- West Virginia
- Kanawha County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Carbon [Kanawha County].
- Wyoming
- Carbon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Carbon [Carbon County].
- Alberta
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Carbon ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Carbon:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Carbon - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Carbon.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 42/11200 (Place Name: Carbon (Trachsville))
County: Carbon (FIPS State/County: 42/025)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Carbon) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Carbon 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 Carbon County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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 Carbon 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. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |