Do you know of Nixon ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1900 and closed in 1913.

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 Nixon ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Nixon.

Within West Virginia, the name Nixon is unique.

Beyond West Virginia, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
  - Bay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Nixon [Bay County].
- Georgia
  - Richmond County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Nixon [Richmond County].
- Indiana
  - Henry County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Nixon [Henry County].
- Kansas
  - Pawnee County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Nixon [Pawnee County].
- Maine
  - Aroostook County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Nixon [Aroostook County].
- Mississippi
  - Humphreys County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Nixon [Humphreys County].
  - Pontotoc County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Nixon [Pontotoc County].
- Nevada
  - Nye County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Nixon [Nye County].
  - Washoe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Nixon [Washoe County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Nixon.
- New Jersey
  - Middlesex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Nixon [Middlesex County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Nixon.
- Oregon
  - Linn County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Nixon [Linn County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Butler County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Nixon [Butler County].
  - Susquehanna County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Nixon [Susquehanna County].
- Tennessee
  - Hardin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Nixon [Hardin County].
- Texas
  - Gonzales County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Nixon [Gonzales County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Nixon ...

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

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 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.

Footnotes ...

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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 Nixon 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.

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

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