Do you know of Clio ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Clio. 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 Clio.
Our sources for Clio (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 Clio other than they indicate that Clio would be found somewhere in Floyd County, Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1899 and closed in 1904.
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 Clio ...
We found thirteen communities that share the name Clio.
Within Virginia, the name Clio is unique.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Barbour County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Clio [Barbour County].
- Arkansas
- California
- Plumas County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Clio [Plumas County].
- Florida
- Liberty County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Clio [Liberty County].
- Iowa
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Clio [Wayne County].
- Kentucky
- Whitley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Clio [Whitley County].
- Louisiana
- Livingston Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Clio [Livingston Parish].
- Michigan
- Genesee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Clio [Genesee County].
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Guernsey County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Clio [Guernsey County].
- South Carolina
- Marlboro County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Clio [Marlboro County].
- Texas
- West Virginia
- Roane County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Clio [Roane County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Clio ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Clio:
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 Floyd 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 Floyd 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Clio 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/ |