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Do you know of Black Fork ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Black Fork. 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 Black Fork.<1>

We found mention of Black Fork as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Tucker County, West 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 1858 and closed  in 1885.

Communities Also Named Black Fork ...

We found two communities that share the name Black Fork.

There is one other community in West Virginia which is also named Black Fork.

Beyond West Virginia, there is another community also named Black Fork in the United States.

  • Communities Located In West Virginia ...
    • Unknown
      • The profile page for Black Fork #1 [County unknown]
      • 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 West Virginia community of Black Fork.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Scott County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Black Fork [Scott County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Black Fork ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Tucker 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 Tucker County.

Albert 
 Mooreland
BohonMount Zion
  
ChildPendleton
CloverPorter
Corder 
 Red Creek
FairfaxRed Run
  
HaddixSand Run Junction
Hulings 

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 Black Fork 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/









 

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