Do you know of Clearfield ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Clearfield. 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 Clearfield.<1>
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Clearfield, so we are uncertain whether Clearfield is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Clearfield would be found somewhere in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Communities Also Named Clearfield ...
We found twelve communities that share the name Clearfield.
Within Virginia, the name Clearfield is unique.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, eleven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Delaware
- New Castle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Clearfield [New Castle County].
- Iowa
- Taylor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Clearfield [Taylor County].
- Kansas
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Clearfield [Douglas County].
- Kentucky
- Rowan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Clearfield [Rowan County].
- Maryland
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Clearfield [Carroll County].
- New York
- Erie County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Clearfield [Erie County].
- Pennsylvania
- Clearfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Clearfield [Clearfield County].
- Northampton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Clearfield [Northampton County].
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Clearfield.
- South Dakota
- Tripp County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Clearfield [Tripp County].
- Utah
- Davis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Clearfield [Davis County].
- West Virginia
- Nicholas County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Clearfield [Nicholas County].
- Delaware
More Orphans in Fairfax 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 Fairfax County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Clearfield 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. |