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Do you know of New Geneva ???

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

We found mention of New Geneva as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Jackson 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>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1857 and closed  in 1891.

Communities Also Named New Geneva ...

We found one communities that share the name New Geneva.

Within West Virginia, the name New Geneva is unique.

Beyond West Virginia, there is another community also named New Geneva in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Pennsylvania
      • Fayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of New Geneva [Fayette County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for New Geneva ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Jackson 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 Jackson County.

Bakers 
BeaysvilleJackson
Brewster 
ButlervilleKera Landing
  
CarthageLe Roy
Chase 
Crow SummitMcClains
 Murrayville
DouglassMuses Bottom
Dudeon 
 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>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>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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