Do you know of Frankfort ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Frankfort. 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 Frankfort.
We found mention of Frankfort as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in somewhere in West Virginia.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1800 and closed in 1881.
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 Frankfort ...
We found 23 communities that share the name Frankfort.
Within West Virginia, the name Frankfort is unique.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Frankfort [Franklin County].
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Clinton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Frankfort [Clinton County].
- Iowa
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Frankfort [Montgomery County].
- Kansas
- Cowley 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 Kansas community of Frankfort [Cowley County].
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Frankfort [Marshall County].
- Pottawatomie County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Frankfort [Pottawatomie County].
- Kentucky
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Frankfort [Franklin County].
- Maine
- Waldo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Frankfort [Waldo County].
- Michigan
- Missouri
- Webster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Frankfort [Webster County].
- New Jersey
- Somerset County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Frankfort [Somerset County].
- New York
- Herkimer County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Frankfort [Herkimer County].
- Ohio
- Crawford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Frankfort [Crawford County].
- Guernsey County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Frankfort [Guernsey County].
- Lucas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Frankfort [Lucas County].
- Ross County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Frankfort [Ross County].
- Oklahoma
- Osage County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Frankfort [Osage County].
- South Dakota
- Spink County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Frankfort [Spink County].
- Tennessee
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Frankfort [Morgan County].
- Washington
- Pacific County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Frankfort [Pacific County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Frankfort ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Frankfort:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Frankfort 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 . 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/ |