Do you know of Deer Lick ???

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

Our sources for Deer Lick (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 Deer Lick other than they indicate that Deer Lick would be found somewhere in Mason County, West Virginia.

Communities Also Named Deer Lick ...

We found five communities that share the name Deer Lick.

Within West Virginia, the name Deer Lick is unique.

Beyond West Virginia, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Kentucky
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Deer Lick [Clay County].
  - Logan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Deer Lick [Logan County].
- New York
  - Cattaraugus County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Deer Lick [Cattaraugus County].
- Ohio
  - Williams County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Deer Lick [Williams County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Greene County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Deer Lick [Greene County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Deer Lick ...

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

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

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

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

Rand McNally Map of West Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Mason County ...

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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 Mason County.

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 Deer Lick 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.