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Do you know of Floyd ???

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

Our sources for Floyd (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 Floyd other than they indicate that Floyd would be found somewhere in Venango County, Pennsylvania.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 and closed  in 1910.

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 Floyd ...

We found 23 communities that share the name Floyd.

Within Pennsylvania, the name Floyd is unique.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Elmore County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Floyd [Elmore County].
    • Arkansas
      • White County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Floyd [White County].
    • California
      • Fresno County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Floyd [Fresno County].
    • Georgia
      • Cobb County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Floyd [Cobb County].
    • Iowa
      • Floyd County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Floyd [Floyd County].
    • Kansas
      • Mitchell 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 Floyd [Mitchell County].
    • Kentucky
      • Pulaski County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Floyd [Pulaski County].
    • Louisiana
      • West Carroll Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Floyd [West Carroll Parish].
    • Maryland
      • Garrett County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Floyd [Garrett County].
    • Michigan
      • Isabella 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 Michigan community of Floyd [Isabella County].
      • Midland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Floyd [Midland County].
      • Saint Clair County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Floyd [Saint Clair County].
    • Mississippi
      • Benton 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 Mississippi community of Floyd [Benton County].
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Floyd [Washington County].
    • Missouri
      • Ray County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Floyd [Ray County].
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Floyd [Washington County].
    • New Mexico
      • Roosevelt County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Floyd [Roosevelt County].
    • New York
      • Oneida County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Floyd [Oneida County].
    • North Carolina
      • Cumberland 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 Floyd [Cumberland County].
    • South Carolina
      • Darlington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Floyd [Darlington County].
    • Texas
      • Floyd County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Floyd [Floyd County].
      • Hunt County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Floyd [Hunt County].
    • Virginia
      • Floyd County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Floyd [Floyd County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Floyd ...

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

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 Floyd - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)

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

More Orphans in  Venango 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 Venango County.

Balliett'sKennerdell Station
Baum 
Big BendMcClintockville
BoughtonMiller Farm
Brereton 
Burning WellOil Creek
  
CanalPatchel Run
CassPlum
Clapp FarmPolk Junction
Columbia FarmPorterfield
ColumbiaPrentice
Cornplanter 
Crawford CornersRoberts' Run
 Rockland Station
East Sandy StationRockwood
  
FeeScrubgrass
FreedomSedgwick
 Sherman Wells
Goodmans CornersSouth Oil City
 Springville
Hennry's Bend 
HollandTenmile Bottom
Hoodville 
 Uniontown Heights
Imperial 
 Walnut Bend
Kan City 

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 Floyd 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/









 

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