Do you know of Mohawk ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Mohawk. 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 Mohawk.
Our sources for Mohawk (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 Mohawk other than they indicate that Mohawk would be found somewhere in Crawford County, Pennsylvania.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1900 and closed in 1902.
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 Mohawk ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Mohawk.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Mohawk is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, nineteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Yuma County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Mohawk [Yuma County].
- Arkansas
- Columbia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Mohawk [Columbia County].
- California
- Plumas County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Mohawk [Plumas County].
- Florida
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Mohawk [Lake County].
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Mohawk [Hancock County].
- Michigan
- Keweenaw County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Mohawk [Keweenaw County].
- New York
- Herkimer County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Mohawk [Herkimer County].
- Schenectady 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 New York community of Mohawk [Schenectady County].
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Coshocton 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 Ohio community of Mohawk [Coshocton County].
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Mohawk [Hamilton County].
- Seneca County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Mohawk [Seneca County].
- Oklahoma
- Tulsa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Mohawk [Tulsa County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Mohawk.
- Oregon
- Lane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Mohawk [Lane County].
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Mohawk [Greene County].
- Virginia
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Mohawk [Lee County].
- West Virginia
- McDowell County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Mohawk [McDowell County].
- Arizona
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mohawk ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Mohawk:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
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 Crawford 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 Crawford 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 Mohawk 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/ |