Do you know of Johnstown ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Johnstown. 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 Johnstown.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Johnstown, so we are uncertain whether Johnstown is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Johnstown would be found somewhere in Van Zandt County, Texas.
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 Johnstown ...
We found 38 communities that share the name Johnstown.
There is one other community in Texas which is also named Johnstown.
Beyond Texas, we know of another 37 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 37 communities, 36 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Texas ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Johnstown [Jackson County].
- California
- San Diego County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Johnstown [San Diego County].
- Colorado
- Arapahoe 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 Colorado community of Johnstown [Arapahoe County].
- Weld County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Johnstown [Weld County].
- Delaware
- Florida
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Johnstown [Union County].
- Georgia
- Hall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Johnstown [Hall County].
- Illinois
- Cumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Johnstown [Cumberland County].
- Indiana
- Maryland
- Calvert County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Johnstown [Calvert County].
- Michigan
- Barry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Johnstown [Barry County].
- Missouri
- Bates County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Johnstown [Bates County].
- Jasper 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 Missouri community of Johnstown [Jasper County].
- Linn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Johnstown [Linn County].
- Montana
- Cascade County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Johnstown [Cascade County].
- Nebraska
- Brown County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Johnstown [Brown County].
- New York
- Fulton County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Johnstown [Fulton County].
- North Carolina
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Johnstown [Lincoln County].
- North Dakota
- Grand Forks County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Johnstown [Grand Forks County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Johnstown.
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Johnstown.
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny 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 Pennsylvania community of Johnstown [Allegheny County].
- Cambria County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Johnstown [Cambria County].
- Lebanon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Johnstown [Lebanon County].
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Johnstown [Union County].
- South Carolina
- Aiken County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Johnstown [Aiken County].
- Tennessee
- Coffee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Johnstown [Coffee County].
- West Virginia
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Johnstown [Harrison County].
- McDowell County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Johnstown [McDowell County].
- Raleigh County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Johnstown [Raleigh County].
- Wisconsin
- Rock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Johnstown [Rock County].
- Wyoming
- Fremont County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Johnstown [Fremont County].
More Orphans in Van Zandt 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 Van Zandt 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Johnstown 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. |