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Do you know of O'Toole ???

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

Our source wasn't clear whether O'Toole was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that O'Toole would be found somewhere in McDowell County, West Virginia.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for O'Toole ...

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

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 O'Toole.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 54/61276   (Place Name: O'Toole)

County: McDowell     (FIPS State/County: 54/047)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, O'Toole) 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  McDowell 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 McDowell County.

AmoLick Branch
Angle 
ArlingtonMile Branch
AuvilleMoses
 Munson
Belcher 
 Olmsted
Caples 
ClarenPando
 Peeryville
DearingPolon
Droit 
 Ritter
East VivianRogers
Elkridge 
 Snake Root
GluckSouth Fork Junction
GrapevineSquirejim
GreenbrierStansill
 Susanna
Hallsville 
HarrisonvilleTidewater
HartwellTotten
HorsepenTug River
  
JunoVedra
  

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.









 

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