Do you know of Pineville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Pineville. 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 Pineville.
Our sources for Pineville (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 Pineville other than they indicate that Pineville would be found somewhere in Polk County, Wisconsin.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1880 and closed in 1906.
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 Pineville ...
We found 22 communities that share the name Pineville.
Within Wisconsin, the name Pineville is unique.
Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 22 communities, 21 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Pineville [Monroe County].
- Arkansas
- Izard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Pineville [Izard County].
- Connecticut
- Windham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Pineville [Windham County].
- Florida
- Escambia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Pineville [Escambia County].
- Georgia
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Pineville [Marion County].
- Kentucky
- Bell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Pineville [Bell County].
- Louisiana
- Rapides Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Pineville [Rapides Parish].
- Minnesota
- Saint Louis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Pineville [Saint Louis County].
- Mississippi
- Harrison 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 Mississippi community of Pineville [Harrison County].
- Smith County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Pineville [Smith County].
- Missouri
- McDonald County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Pineville [McDonald County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Pineville.
- New York
- Oswego County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Pineville [Oswego County].
- North Carolina
- Mecklenburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Pineville [Mecklenburg County].
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Berkeley County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Pineville [Berkeley County].
- Tennessee
- Virginia
- West Virginia
- Wyoming County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Pineville [Wyoming County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pineville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Pineville:
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 Pineville - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station
More Orphans in Polk 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 Polk County.
| Alabama | Ilo |
| Alden | |
| Alletta | Loraine |
| Avondale | |
| North Valley | |
| Black Brook | |
| Osceola Mills | |
| East Lincoln | |
| El Salem | Patterson |
| Farmington Centre | Saint Croix Junction |
| South Farmington | |
| Gregory | |
| Wagon Landing |
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 Pineville 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/ |