Do you know of Climax ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Climax. 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 Climax.
Our sources for Climax (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 Climax other than they indicate that Climax would be found somewhere in Clarion County, Pennsylvania.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1889 and closed in 1944.
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 Climax ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Climax.
There are two communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Climax.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, twenty are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Climax [Lake County].
- Georgia
- Decatur County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Climax [Decatur County].
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Greenwood County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Climax [Greenwood County].
- Kentucky
- Rockcastle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Climax [Rockcastle County].
- Michigan
- Kalamazoo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Climax [Kalamazoo County].
- Minnesota
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Climax [Polk County].
- New Mexico
- New York
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Climax [Greene County].
- North Carolina
- Guilford County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Climax [Guilford County].
- Ohio
- Morrow County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Climax [Morrow County].
- Oregon
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Climax [Jackson County].
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Climax.
- South Carolina
- Lexington County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Climax [Lexington County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Pittsylvania County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Climax [Pittsylvania County].
- Washington
- Walla Walla County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Climax [Walla Walla County].
- Colorado
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Climax ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Climax:
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 Climax - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station
More Orphans in Clarion 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 Clarion 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 Climax 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/ |