Do you know of Hanging Rock ???

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

Our sources for Hanging Rock (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 Hanging Rock other than they indicate that Hanging Rock would be found somewhere in Hampshire 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 Hanging Rock ...

We found three communities that share the name Hanging Rock.

Within West Virginia, the name Hanging Rock is unique.

Beyond West Virginia, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Kentucky
    • Grayson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Hanging Rock [Grayson County].
  • Ohio
    • Lawrence County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Hanging Rock [Lawrence County].
  • Virginia
    • Roanoke County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Hanging Rock [Roanoke County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hanging Rock ...

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

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

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

Rand McNally Map of West Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Hampshire 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 Hampshire County.