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Do you know of View ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1880 and closed  in 1892.

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 View ...

We found six communities that share the name View.

Within West Virginia, the name View is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Habersham 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 Georgia community of View [Habersham County].
    • Idaho
      • Cassia County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of View [Cassia County].
    • Kentucky
      • Crittenden County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of View [Crittenden County].
    • Ohio
      • Ross County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of View [Ross County].
    • Texas
      • Taylor County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of View [Taylor County].
    • Washington
      • Clark 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 Washington community of View [Clark County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for View ...

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

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 View - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Greenbrier 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 Greenbrier County.

AdvanceMidland Mine
ArgoMill Hill
Auto 
 Oakhurst
Bunger'sOlivet
Burdetts CreekOrange Cave
  
CoffmanPetersen
Coggins 
Columbia Sulphur SpringsRaders Run
 Rainelle Junction
East RainelleReese
EvelynRenick
 Romantic
Harts Run 
HokeSam Black Church
HollidaySecond Creek
HowardSewell Valley
  
JetsvilleTimtony
JubeTincher
 Trout Valley
Leivasy Junction 
Little Sewell MountainWatts
Lowry's MillWhite Sulphur
  

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 View 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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