Do you know of Mayville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Mayville. 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 Mayville.<1>
We found mention of Mayville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Raleigh County, West Virginia.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>
Communities Also Named Mayville ...
We found ten communities that share the name Mayville.
Within West Virginia, the name Mayville is unique.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
- Maine
- Oxford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Mayville [Oxford County].
- Michigan
- Tuscola County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Mayville [Tuscola County].
- Minnesota
- Mower County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Mayville [Mower County].
- New Jersey
- Cape May County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Mayville [Cape May County].
- New York
- Chautauqua County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Mayville [Chautauqua County].
- North Dakota
- Traill County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Mayville [Traill County].
- Oregon
- Gilliam County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Mayville [Gilliam County].
- Pennsylvania
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Mayville [Lawrence County].
- Wisconsin
- Dodge County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Mayville [Dodge County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mayville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Mayville:
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
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> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Mayville 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. |