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Do you know of Round Knob ???

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

We found mention of Round Knob as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Putnam 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.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1867 and closed  in 1905.

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 Round Knob ...

We found three communities that share the name Round Knob.

Within West Virginia, the name Round Knob is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Illinois
      • Massac County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Round Knob [Massac County].
    • North Carolina
      • McDowell 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 North Carolina community of Round Knob [McDowell County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Bedford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Round Knob [Bedford County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Round Knob ...

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

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

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Round Knob.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 54/70540   (Place Name: Round Knob)

County: Putnam     (FIPS State/County: 54/079)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Round Knob) 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  Putnam 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 Putnam County.

BeeMount Vernon
Brillian 
BurdettOak Forest
ByrnsideOldaker
  
CadesPhiloah
Carpenters 
CourtneyQueen City
Curry 
 Red House Shoals
ElsinoreRena
 Riverside
FrankRumer
  
HernScaryville
 Scott
IdaScott's Depot
 Shops
KirtleySimms
  
LorraineWaldo
 Woods
McGill 

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Round Knob 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.
<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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