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Do you know of Poe ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1853 and closed  in 1892.

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 Poe ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Poe.

Within Pennsylvania, the name Poe is unique.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alberta
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Poe.
    • Arkansas
      • Grant 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 Arkansas community of Poe [Grant County].
      • Van Buren County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Poe [Van Buren County].
    • California
      • Butte County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Poe [Butte County].
      • San Bernardino County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Poe [San Bernardino County].
    • Illinois
      • Monroe 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 Illinois community of Poe [Monroe County].
    • Indiana
      • Allen County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Poe [Allen County].
    • Kansas
      • Logan 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 Poe [Logan County].
    • New Mexico
      • Chaves 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 Mexico community of Poe [Chaves County].
    • Ohio
      • Medina County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Poe [Medina County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Poe #
      • 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 Oklahoma community of Poe.
    • South Carolina
      • Greenville County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Poe [Greenville County].
    • Texas
      • Nacogdoches County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Poe [Nacogdoches County].
    • Virginia
      • Prince George 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 Virginia community of Poe [Prince George County].
    • West Virginia
      • Nicholas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Poe [Nicholas County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Poe ...

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

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 Poe - 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  Beaver 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 Beaver County.

AgnewLinmore
Andrews PlanLogan
 Logstown
Baker's Landing 
Banard TownMacArthur
Barret PlanMeadow Wood
BeltonMoss Plan
Brighton 
Brown'sOakwood
Brush Creek 
 Parkgate
Caylor's FerryPleasantview
Chippewa 
ClintonRacine
ColonaRedstone
Cook's FerryRemington
 Riverside
Dawson RidgeRock Point
Dry RunRowe
  
Ellwood JunctionService
Ethel LandingShafer's
 Shannopin's
French PointShiner
 Steffins Hill
Geneva HillSunset Hills
Glenwall Village 
Grand ViewWallace Run
Green GardenWalnut
 Water Cure
HighlandWatt's Mill
HillcrestWest Aliquippa
Homewood JunctionWest Bridgewater
 West Darlington
KiasolaWest Economy
KnoxWest Ellwood Junction
KobutaWest Ellwood
 West Rochester
Laughlin CornerWickham Village
Legionville 
LimetonZeller

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 Poe 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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