Do you know of Hainesville ???

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

Our sources for Hainesville (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 Hainesville other than they indicate that Hainesville would be found somewhere in Hampshire County, West Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1878 and closed in 1895.

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 Hainesville ...

We found eight communities that share the name Hainesville.

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

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

Communities Located In West Virginia ...
- Berkeley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Hainesville [Berkeley County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
  - Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Hainesville [Lake County].
  - Tazewell 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 Illinois community of Hainesville [Tazewell County].
- Missouri
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Hainesville [Clay County].
- Nebraska
  - Holt County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Hainesville [Holt County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Hainesville.
- New Jersey
  - Sussex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Hainesville [Sussex County].
- Texas
  - Wood County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Hainesville [Wood County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hainesville ...

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

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 Hainesville - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in Hampshire 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 Hampshire County.

Bache
	Lafollettsville
Camp Wickham
Concord	Rocks
	Romney Junction
Forks of Cacapon
French	South Branch Depot

Green Spring Run	Vanderlip

Hanging Rock	West Romney

Footnotes ...

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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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Hainesville 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/