Do you know of North End ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about North End. 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 North End.<1>
We found mention of North End as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Mathews County, Virginia.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1800 and closed in 1866.
Communities Also Named North End ...
We found fourteen communities that share the name North End.
There is one other community in Virginia which is also named North End.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Virginia Beach City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of North End [Virginia Beach City].
- Virginia Beach City
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Hartford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of North End [Hartford County].
- New Haven 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 Connecticut community of North End [New Haven County].
- Georgia
- Glynn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of North End [Glynn County].
- Louisiana
- Saint Tammany Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of North End [Saint Tammany Parish].
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- New York
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of North End.
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Berkeley County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of North End [Berkeley County].
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of North End [Salt Lake County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for North End ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about North End:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (1803)
Printed by order of the Post Master General
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Mathews 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 Mathews County.
| Burtonsville | |
| North | |
| Guynn | |
| Gwynn's Island | Piankatank |
| Hicks' Wharf | Traders |
| Miles Store | Williams' Wharf |
| Miles |
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 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 North End 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. |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |