Do you know of Edgewater ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Edgewater. 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 Edgewater.
Our sources for Edgewater (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 Edgewater other than they indicate that Edgewater would be found somewhere in Fayette County, West Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1898.
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 Edgewater ...
We found 31 communities that share the name Edgewater.
Within West Virginia, the name Edgewater is unique.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another 31 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 31 communities, 30 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Edgewater [Jefferson County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Edgewater.
- Colorado
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Edgewater [Jefferson County].
- Delaware
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Edgewater [Sussex County].
- Florida
- Broward County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Edgewater [Broward County].
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Edgewater [Hillsborough County].
- Volusia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Edgewater [Volusia County].
- Georgia
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Edgewater [Fayette County].
- Illinois
- Cook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Edgewater [Cook County].
- Indiana
- Porter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Edgewater [Porter County].
- Kentucky
- Pike County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Edgewater [Pike County].
- Louisiana
- Ouachita Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Edgewater [Ouachita Parish].
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Benzie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Edgewater [Benzie County].
- Berrien 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 Edgewater [Berrien County].
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Sumter County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Edgewater [Sumter County].
- Tennessee
- Rhea County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Edgewater [Rhea County].
- Vermont
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Edgewater [Washington County].
- Virginia
- Grayson 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 Virginia community of Edgewater [Grayson County].
- Hampton City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Edgewater [Hampton City].
- Norfolk City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Edgewater [Norfolk City].
- Washington
- Wisconsin
- Sawyer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Edgewater [Sawyer County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Edgewater ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Edgewater:
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 Edgewater - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station
More Orphans in Fayette 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 Fayette County.
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 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 Edgewater 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/ |