Do you know of Miami ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Miami. 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 Miami.
Our sources for Miami (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Miami other than they indicate that Miami would be found somewhere in Lancaster County, Virginia.
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 Miami ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Miami.
Within Virginia, the name Miami is unique.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, seventeen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Gila County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Miami [Gila County].
- Florida
- Miami-Dade County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Miami [Miami-Dade County].
- Indiana
- Miami County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Miami [Miami County].
- Iowa
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Miami [Monroe County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Green County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Miami [Green County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Miami.
- Michigan
- Macomb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Miami [Macomb County].
- Missouri
- Saline County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Miami [Saline County].
- New Mexico
- Colfax County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Miami [Colfax County].
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Erie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Miami [Erie County].
- Hamilton 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 Ohio community of Miami [Hamilton County].
- Lucas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Miami [Lucas County].
- Oklahoma
- Ottawa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Miami [Ottawa County].
- Texas
- West Virginia
- Kanawha County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Miami [Kanawha County].
- Arizona
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Miami ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Miami:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Miami - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Lancaster 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 Lancaster County.
| Bellwood Mills | |
| Brookvale | Pinckardsville |
| Carlson Store | Rehoboth Church |
| Chase's Wharf | |
| Treakles | |
| Eubanks | |
| White Stone Beach | |
| Fisherman | Windmill Point |
| Kilmarnock Wharf | Zamuth |
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 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 Miami 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. |