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Do you know of Dade ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Dade. 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 Dade. Our sources for Dade (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 Dade other than they indicate that Dade would be found somewhere in Nicholas County, West Virginia. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1905 and closed in 1927. 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 Dade ...We found one communities that share the name Dade. Within West Virginia, the name Dade is unique. Beyond West Virginia, there is another community also named Dade in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dade ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Dade: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Rand McNally Map of West Virginia (1911)
More Orphans in Nicholas 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 Nicholas County. Footnotes ...
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