Do you know of Eldorado ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Eldorado. 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 Eldorado.
Our sources for Eldorado (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 Eldorado other than they indicate that Eldorado would be found somewhere in Clay County, West Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1896 and closed in 1920.
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 Eldorado ...
We found 25 communities that share the name Eldorado.
Within West Virginia, the name Eldorado is unique.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 25 communities, 23 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
- Georgia
- 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 Georgia community of Eldorado [Berrien County].
- Tift County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Eldorado [Tift County].
- Illinois
- Saline County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Eldorado [Saline County].
- Iowa
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Eldorado [Fayette County].
- Louisiana
- Maryland
- Dorchester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Eldorado [Dorchester County].
- Michigan
- Crawford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Eldorado [Crawford County].
- Mississippi
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Eldorado [Warren County].
- Missouri
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Eldorado [Clark County].
- Nebraska
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Eldorado [Clay County].
- New Mexico
- Bernalillo 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 New Mexico community of Eldorado [Bernalillo County].
- Lea County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Eldorado [Lea County].
- North Carolina
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Eldorado [Montgomery County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Eldorado [Jackson County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Eldorado.
- Oregon
- Malheur County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Eldorado [Malheur County].
- Pennsylvania
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Eldorado.
- Texas
- Schleicher County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Eldorado [Schleicher County].
- Wisconsin
- Fond du Lac County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Eldorado [Fond du Lac County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Eldorado ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Eldorado:
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)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Clay 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 Clay County.
| Angeline | Otter |
| Big Otter | Pleasant Retreat |
| Big Sycamore | |
| Scotford | |
| Camp | Serena |
| Dimple | Valleyfork |
| Villa Nova | |
| Mamie | |
| Mount Home | Yankee Dam |
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 Eldorado 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/ |