Do you know of Claremont ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Claremont. 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 Claremont.
We found mention of Claremont as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Pickens County, South Carolina.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1827 and closed in 1869.
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 Claremont ...
We found 25 communities that share the name Claremont.
There is one other community in South Carolina which is also named Claremont.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 23 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In South Carolina ...
- Sumter County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Claremont [Sumter County].
- Sumter County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Colorado
- Illinois
- Richland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Claremont [Richland County].
- Maryland
- Baltimore City
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Claremont [Baltimore City].
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Dodge County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Claremont [Dodge County].
- Mississippi
- Coahoma County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Claremont [Coahoma County].
- New Hampshire
- Sullivan County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Claremont [Sullivan County].
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- Catron County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Claremont [Catron County].
- New York
- Westchester County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Claremont [Westchester County].
- North Carolina
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Claremont.
- Ohio
- Belmont County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Claremont [Belmont County].
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- South Dakota
- Brown County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Claremont [Brown County].
- Tennessee
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Claremont [Hamilton County].
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Claremont [Fayette County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Claremont ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Claremont:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Pickens 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 Pickens 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 Claremont 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/ |