Do you know of Haven ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1893.

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 Haven ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Haven.

Within West Virginia, the name Haven is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Plumas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Haven [Plumas County].
- Indiana
  - Ripley 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 Indiana community of Haven [Ripley County].
- Iowa
  - Tama County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Haven [Tama County].
- Kansas
  - Reno County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Haven [Reno County].
- Maine
  - Hancock County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Haven [Hancock County].
- Minnesota
  - Sherburne 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 Minnesota community of Haven [Sherburne County].
- Missouri
  - Greene County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Haven [Greene County].
- New York
  - Sullivan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Haven [Sullivan County].
- Tennessee
  - Bedford 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 Tennessee community of Haven [Bedford County].
- Virginia
  - Mathews County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Haven [Mathews County].
- Wisconsin
  - Sheboygan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Haven [Sheboygan County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Haven ...

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

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

More Orphans in Doddridge 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 Doddridge County.

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Haven 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/