Do you know of Long Beach ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Long Beach. 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 Long Beach.

Our sources for Long Beach (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 Long Beach other than they indicate that Long Beach would be found somewhere in Pierce County, Washington.

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 Long Beach ...

We found nineteen communities that share the name Long Beach.

There is one other community in Washington which is also named Long Beach.

Beyond Washington, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and seven are in Canada.

Communities Located In Washington ...
- Pacific County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Long Beach [Pacific County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Los Angeles County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Long Beach [Los Angeles County].
- Indiana
  - LaPorte County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Long Beach [LaPorte County].
- Maine
  - Cumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Long Beach [Cumberland County].
  - York County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Long Beach [York County].
- Maryland
  - Calvert County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Long Beach [Calvert County].
- Massachusetts
  - Essex 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 Massachusetts community of Long Beach [Essex County].
- Michigan
  - Muskegon 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 Michigan community of Long Beach [Muskegon County].
- Minnesota
  - Pope County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Long Beach [Pope County].
- Mississippi
  - Harrison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Long Beach [Harrison County].
- Missouri
  - Taney County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Long Beach [Taney County].
- New Jersey
  - Ocean County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Long Beach [Ocean County].
- New York
  - Nassau County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Long Beach [Nassau County].
  - Queens 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 New York community of Long Beach [Queens County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
  - Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Long Beach.
- North Carolina
  - Brunswick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Long Beach [Brunswick County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Long Beach.
- Ohio
  - Ottawa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Long Beach [Ottawa County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Long Beach.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Long Beach ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Long Beach:

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Long Beach - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in Pierce 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 Pierce County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Long Beach 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.