Do you know of Valentine ???

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

Our sources for Valentine (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Valentine other than they indicate that Valentine would be found somewhere in Lexington County, South Carolina.

Communities Also Named Valentine ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Valentine.

There is one other community in South Carolina which is also named Valentine.

Beyond South Carolina, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In South Carolina ...
- Hampton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Valentine [Hampton County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Shelby County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Valentine [Shelby County].
- Arizona
  - Mohave County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Valentine [Mohave County].
- Arkansas
  - Pulaski County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Valentine [Pulaski County].
- Georgia
  - Echols 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 Georgia community of Valentine [Echols County].
- Indiana
  - LaGrange County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Valentine [LaGrange County].
- Louisiana
  - Lafourche Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Valentine [Lafourche Parish].
- Montana
  - Fergus County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Valentine [Fergus County].
- Nebraska
  - Cherry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Valentine [Cherry County].
- New Jersey
  - Middlesex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Valentine [Middlesex County].
- Ohio
  - Shelby County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Valentine [Shelby County].
- Texas
  - Jeff Davis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Valentine [Jeff Davis County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Valentine ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Lexington 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 Lexington 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 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 Valentine 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.