Do you know of Barlow ???

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

Our sources for Barlow (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 Barlow other than they indicate that Barlow would be found somewhere in Lee County, Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1899 and closed in 1903.

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 Barlow ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Barlow.

Within Virginia, the name Barlow is unique.

Beyond Virginia, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Barlow [Washington County].
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Barlow.
- California
  - Sonoma County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Barlow [Sonoma County].
- Idaho
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Barlow [Jefferson County].
- Kansas
  - Norton 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 Barlow [Norton County].
- Kentucky
  - Ballard County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Barlow [Ballard County].
- Mississippi
  - Copiah County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Barlow [Copiah County].
- Missouri
  - Wayne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Barlow [Wayne County].
- New Jersey
  - Camden 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 Jersey community of Barlow [Camden County].
- North Dakota
  - Foster County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Barlow [Foster County].
- Ohio
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Barlow [Washington County].
- Oregon
  - Clackamas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Barlow [Clackamas County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Adams County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Barlow [Adams County].
- Texas
  - Cooke 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 Texas community of Barlow [Cooke County].
- Utah
  - Davis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Barlow [Davis County].
- West Virginia
  - Kanawha County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Barlow [Kanawha County].
- Yukon
  - Please visit our profile page for the Yukon community of Barlow.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Barlow ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Rand McNally Map of Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Lee 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 Lee County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Barlow 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/