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Do you know of Indian Camp ???

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

Our sources for Indian Camp (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 Indian Camp other than they indicate that Indian Camp would be found somewhere in Upshur County, West Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1877 and closed  in 1916.

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 Indian Camp ...

We found one communities that share the name Indian Camp.

Within West Virginia, the name Indian Camp is unique.

Beyond West Virginia, there is another community also named Indian Camp in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Ohio
      • Guernsey County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Indian Camp [Guernsey County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Indian Camp ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Indian Camp - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

More Orphans in  Upshur 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 Upshur County.

Adrian JunctionMagnolia
 McCue
CosMiller's
  
DellNewlon
 Nixon
Fishing Camp 
 Ours Mill
Gawthrop 
 Post Mill
Hampton Junction 
HinkleSpruce
Hinkle's MillsStar
 Stillman
IvanhoeStrader
 Straight Fork

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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