Do you know of Mineral Spring ???

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

We found mention of Mineral Spring as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania.

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.

Communities Also Named Mineral Spring ...

We found six communities that share the name Mineral Spring.

There are two communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Mineral Spring.

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

Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Butler County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Mineral Spring [Butler County].
- Somerset County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Mineral Spring [Somerset County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Maryland
  - Garrett County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Mineral Spring [Garrett County].
- Missouri
  - Barry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Mineral Spring [Barry County].
- North Carolina
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Mineral Spring [Lincoln County].
  - Pender 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 Mineral Spring [Pender County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mineral Spring ...

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in Clearfield County ...

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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 Clearfield County.

Footnotes ...

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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 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 Mineral Spring 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.