Do you know of Long Run ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Long Run. 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 Long Run.<1>

Our sources for Long Run (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 Long Run other than they indicate that Long Run would be found somewhere in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.

Communities Also Named Long Run ...

We found ten communities that share the name Long Run.

There are three communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Long Run.

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

Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Cambria County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Long Run [Cambria County].
- Carbon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Long Run [Carbon County].
- Clarion 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 Pennsylvania community of Long Run [Clarion County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Indiana
  - Switzerland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Long Run [Switzerland County].
- Kentucky
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Long Run [Jefferson County].
- Ohio
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Long Run [Jefferson County].
  - Licking County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Long Run [Licking County].
- West Virginia
  - Doddridge County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Long Run [Doddridge County].
  - Harrison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Long Run [Harrison County].
  - Ritchie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Long Run [Ritchie County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Long Run ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Long Run - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in Armstrong 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 Armstrong County.

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 Long Run 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.