Do you know of Mount Clare ???

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

Our sources for Mount Clare (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 Mount Clare other than they indicate that Mount Clare would be found somewhere in Harrison County, West Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1876.

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 Mount Clare ...

We found four communities that share the name Mount Clare.

Within West Virginia, the name Mount Clare is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Illinois
    • Macoupin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Mount Clare [Macoupin County].
  • Iowa
    • Lee County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Mount Clare [Lee County].
  • Maryland
    • Baltimore City
    • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Mount Clare [Baltimore City].
  • Nebraska
    • Nuckolls County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Mount Clare [Nuckolls County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mount Clare ...

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

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 Mount Clare - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Appalachia & Piedmont
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Mount Clare.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 54/56236   (Place Name: Mount Clare)

County: Harrison     (FIPS State/County: 54/033)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Mount Clare) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Harrison 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 Harrison County.