Do you know of Leonard ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Leonard. 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 Leonard.
Our sources for Leonard (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 Leonard other than they indicate that Leonard would be found somewhere in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1887 and closed in 1916.
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 Leonard ...
We found 23 communities that share the name Leonard.
There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named Leonard.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 22 communities, 22 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Clearfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Leonard [Clearfield County].
- Clearfield County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Leonard [Cherokee County].
- Arkansas
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Leonard [Clay County].
- California
- Colorado
- San Miguel County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Leonard [San Miguel County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Leonard [Hillsborough County].
- Illinois
- Iroquois County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Leonard [Iroquois County].
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Michigan
- Oakland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Leonard [Oakland County].
- Minnesota
- Clearwater County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Leonard [Clearwater County].
- Missouri
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Leonard [Shelby County].
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Cass County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Leonard [Cass County].
- Oklahoma
- Tulsa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Leonard [Tulsa County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Leonard.
- Tennessee
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Leonard [Clay County].
- Sullivan 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 Tennessee community of Leonard [Sullivan County].
- Texas
- Fannin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Leonard [Fannin County].
- Virginia
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Leonard [Washington County].
- West Virginia
- Greenbrier County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Leonard [Greenbrier County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Leonard ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Leonard:
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 Leonard - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Chester 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 Chester 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 Leonard 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/ |