Do you know of Hampton ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hampton. 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 Hampton.
Our sources for Hampton (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 Hampton other than they indicate that Hampton would be found somewhere in Raleigh County, West Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 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 Hampton ...
We found 45 communities that share the name Hampton.
There is one other community in West Virginia which is also named Hampton.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another 44 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 44 communities, 40 are located in the United States and five are in Canada.
- Communities Located In West Virginia ...
- Upshur County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Hampton [Upshur County].
- Upshur County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Tallapoosa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Hampton [Tallapoosa County].
- Arkansas
- Calhoun County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Hampton [Calhoun County].
- Connecticut
- Windham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Hampton [Windham County].
- Delaware
- New Castle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Hampton [New Castle County].
- Florida
- Bradford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Hampton [Bradford County].
- Georgia
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Hampton [Henry County].
- Idaho
- Latah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Hampton [Latah County].
- Illinois
- Rock Island County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Hampton [Rock Island County].
- Will 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 Hampton [Will County].
- Iowa
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Hampton [Franklin County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Boyd 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 Kentucky community of Hampton [Boyd County].
- Livingston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Hampton [Livingston County].
- Louisiana
- Allen Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Hampton [Allen Parish].
- Maryland
- Minnesota
- Dakota County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Hampton [Dakota County].
- Mississippi
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Hampton [Washington County].
- Missouri
- Platte County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Hampton [Platte County].
- Nebraska
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Hampton [Hamilton County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Hampton.
- New Hampshire
- Rockingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Hampton [Rockingham County].
- New Jersey
- New York
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Hampton [Washington County].
- North Carolina
- Durham County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Hampton [Durham County].
- Granville 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 North Carolina community of Hampton [Granville County].
- North Dakota
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Hampton.
- Oklahoma
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Hampton.
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Adams County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Hampton [Adams County].
- Berks 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 Pennsylvania community of Hampton [Berks County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Hampton.
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Hampton.
- South Carolina
- Hampton County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Hampton [Hampton County].
- Tennessee
- Carter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Hampton [Carter County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Hampton City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Hampton [Hampton City].
- Washington
- Whatcom County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Hampton [Whatcom County].
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- Uinta County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Hampton [Uinta County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hampton ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hampton:
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 Hampton - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Raleigh 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 Raleigh County.
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 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 Hampton 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/ |