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Do you know of McClains ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about McClains. 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 McClains.<1>

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1886 and closed  in 1907.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for McClains ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

More Orphans in  Jackson 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 Jackson County.

Bakers 
BeaysvilleJackson
Brewster 
ButlervilleKera Landing
  
CarthageLe Roy
Chase 
Crow SummitMurrayville
 Muses Bottom
Douglass 
DudeonNew Geneva
 North Hill
Elk Fork 
EmmaPiercy
 Portland
Fisher's PointPostsville
Flinn 
Foster ChapelRavenswood Works
Frozen CampRipling Waters
FrozencampRock Castle
  
Grass LickSandy
 Sayre
Harpers 
HoggWarren

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>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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