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Do you know of Fontaine ???

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

Our sources for Fontaine (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Fontaine other than they indicate that Fontaine would be found somewhere in Logan County, West Virginia.

Communities Also Named Fontaine ...

We found five communities that share the name Fontaine.

Within West Virginia, the name Fontaine is unique.

Beyond West Virginia, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, four are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Greene County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Fontaine [Greene County].
    • Florida
      • Fontaine #
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Fontaine.
    • New Brunswick
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Fontaine.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Chester County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Fontaine [Chester County].
    • Virginia
      • Henry County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Fontaine [Henry County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fontaine ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Logan 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 Logan County.

Alonzo 
Amherstdale - RobinetteLax
Ardrossan 
ArgonneManus
 Melville
Bandmill JunctionMeredith
BarnabasMonitor Junction
Beech CreekMount Gay - Shamrock
BendMouth of Pigeon
BerthaMouth of Sycamore
BurchMud Junction
 Mudfork
CalicoMyrtle
Cham 
ChambersburgNolan
Coalmer 
CurryPhillips
CyclonePoplar
  
DingessRagland
 Right Fork Junction
EugeneRolfe
  
FerrellSeng
FoleySidney
 Snap Creek Junction
GarnetteSpaulding
GaySpottswood
Gilbert 
GinTaylor
GodbyThree Forks
 Tomlinson
Hawthorne 
HinchVanceville
HugheyVerdun
Hunt 
 Wilbur
JohnsonvilleWootens

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.









 

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