Do you know of Harvey ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Harvey. 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 Harvey.
Our sources for Harvey (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 Harvey other than they indicate that Harvey would be found somewhere in Raleigh County, West Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 and closed in 1902.
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 Harvey ...
We found 28 communities that share the name Harvey.
There is one other community in West Virginia which is also named Harvey.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 25 are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
- Communities Located In West Virginia ...
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Harvey [Fayette County].
- Fayette County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Harvey [Scott County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Harvey.
- California
- Illinois
- Cook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Harvey [Cook County].
- Iowa
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Harvey [Marion County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Harvey [Marshall County].
- Louisiana
- Jefferson Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Harvey [Jefferson Parish].
- Maine
- Aroostook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Harvey [Aroostook County].
- Maryland
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Harvey [Washington County].
- Michigan
- Marquette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Harvey [Marquette County].
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Forrest County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Harvey [Forrest County].
- Missouri
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Harvey [Henry County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Harvey.
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Wells County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Harvey [Wells County].
- Ohio
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Harvey [Marion County].
- Oklahoma
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Harvey.
- Texas
- Brazos County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Harvey [Brazos County].
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- Wisconsin
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Harvey ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Harvey:
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 Harvey - 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 Harvey 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/ |