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Do you know of Cedar Valley ???

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

Our sources for Cedar Valley (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 Cedar Valley other than they indicate that Cedar Valley would be found somewhere in Utah County, Utah.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1855.

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 Cedar Valley ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Cedar Valley.

Within Utah, the name Cedar Valley is unique.

Beyond Utah, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and five are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Madison County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cedar Valley [Madison County].
    • Georgia
      • Carroll County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Cedar Valley [Carroll County].
      • DeKalb County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Cedar Valley [DeKalb County].
      • Polk 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 Georgia community of Cedar Valley [Polk County].
      • Whitfield County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Cedar Valley [Whitfield County].
    • Iowa
      • Cedar County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Cedar Valley [Cedar County].
    • Missouri
      • Butler County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Cedar Valley [Butler County].
      • Taney County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Cedar Valley [Taney County].
    • North Carolina
      • Caldwell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Cedar Valley [Caldwell County].
    • Ohio
      • Wayne County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Cedar Valley [Wayne County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Logan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Cedar Valley [Logan County].
    • Ontario
      • 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 Ontario community of Cedar Valley.
    • Tennessee
      • Sullivan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Cedar Valley [Sullivan County].
    • Texas
      • Bell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Cedar Valley [Bell County].
      • Travis County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Cedar Valley [Travis County].
    • Virginia
      • Radford City
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Cedar Valley [Radford City].
    • Washington
      • Snohomish County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Cedar Valley [Snohomish County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cedar Valley ...

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

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 Cedar Valley - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Map from 1900 (unknown title/publisher)

Shell Oil Road Map for Utah (1950)
Published by Shell Oil Company

The FIPS database contains an entry for Cedar Valley.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 49/11540   (Place Name: Cedar Valley (corporate name Cedar Fort))

County: Utah     (FIPS State/County: 49/049)

Class: C4

More Orphans in  Utah 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 Utah County.

AsphaltJones
  
Battle CreekLaguna
Bunker Spur 
 Nebo
Castilla Springs 
CutlerPearl
 Provo Junction
Detour 
 Red Narrows
Gatex 
 Salem Hills
Iron KingSmoot
  

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 Cedar Valley 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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