Do you know of Lambert ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lambert. 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 Lambert.
Our sources for Lambert (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 Lambert other than they indicate that Lambert would be found somewhere in Mecklenburg County, Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1884 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 Lambert ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Lambert.
Within Virginia, the name Lambert is unique.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 23 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Mobile County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Lambert [Mobile County].
- Arkansas
- Hot Spring County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Lambert [Hot Spring County].
- California
- Sacramento County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Lambert [Sacramento County].
- Sonoma 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 California community of Lambert [Sonoma County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Lambert [Hillsborough County].
- Illinois
- Kentucky
- Michigan
- Delta County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Lambert [Delta County].
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Quitman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Lambert [Quitman County].
- Missouri
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Lambert [Scott County].
- Montana
- Richland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Lambert [Richland County].
- Nebraska
- North Carolina
- Stanly County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Lambert [Stanly County].
- North Dakota
- Oklahoma
- Alfalfa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Lambert [Alfalfa County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Lambert.
- Pennsylvania
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Lambert [Fayette County].
- South Carolina
- Georgetown County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Lambert [Georgetown County].
- Williamsburg 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 South Carolina community of Lambert [Williamsburg County].
- Tennessee
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Lambert [Fayette County].
- Texas
- Washington
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Lambert [Clark County].
- Wyoming
- Laramie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Lambert [Laramie County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lambert ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lambert:
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 Lambert - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Mecklenburg 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 Mecklenburg 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 Lambert 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/ |