Do you know of Glen Elk ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Glen Elk. 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 Glen Elk.

Our sources for Glen Elk (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 Glen Elk other than they indicate that Glen Elk would be found somewhere in Kanawha County, West Virginia.

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 Glen Elk ...

We found one communities that share the name Glen Elk.

There is one other community in West Virginia which is also named Glen Elk.

Beyond West Virginia.

• Communities Located In West Virginia ...
  • Harrison County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Glen Elk [Harrison County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Glen Elk ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Glen Elk - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station

More Orphans in  Kanawha 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 Kanawha County.