Do you know of Sloan ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Sloan. 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 Sloan.
Our sources for Sloan (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 Sloan other than they indicate that Sloan would be found somewhere in Wood County, West Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 and closed in 1907.
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 Sloan ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Sloan.
Within West Virginia, the name Sloan is unique.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Blount County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Sloan [Blount County].
- Arkansas
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Sloan [Lawrence County].
- Colorado
- Weld County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Sloan [Weld County].
- Illinois
- Champaign 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 Illinois community of Sloan [Champaign County].
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Sloan [Madison County].
- Indiana
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Sloan [Warren County].
- Iowa
- Woodbury County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Sloan [Woodbury County].
- Kentucky
- Floyd County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Sloan [Floyd County].
- Mississippi
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Sloan [Madison County].
- Missouri
- Montana
- Sanders County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Sloan [Sanders County].
- Nevada
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Sloan [Clark County].
- New York
- Erie County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Sloan [Erie County].
- North Carolina
- Duplin County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Sloan [Duplin County].
- Iredell 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 Sloan [Iredell County].
- Pennsylvania
- Texas
- San Saba County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Sloan [San Saba County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sloan ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Sloan:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Sloan - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)
Rand McNally Map of West Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
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)
More Orphans in Wood 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 Wood County.
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Sloan 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/ |