Do you know of Martinsburg ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Martinsburg, so we are uncertain whether Martinsburg is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Martinsburg would be found somewhere in Elliott County, Kentucky.

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 Martinsburg ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Martinsburg.

There is one other community in Kentucky which is also named Martinsburg.

Beyond Kentucky, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Kentucky ...
- Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Martinsburg [Monroe County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
  - Pike County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Martinsburg [Pike County].
- Indiana
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Martinsburg [Washington County].
- Iowa
  - Keokuk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Martinsburg [Keokuk County].
- Kansas
  - Atchison 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 Martinsburg [Atchison County].
  - Leavenworth County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Martinsburg [Leavenworth County].
- Maryland
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Martinsburg [Montgomery County].
- Missouri
  - Audrain County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Martinsburg [Audrain County].
  - Ripley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Martinsburg [Ripley County].
- Nebraska
  - Dixon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Martinsburg [Dixon County].
- New York
  - Lewis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Martinsburg [Lewis County].
- Ohio
  - Columbiana County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Martinsburg [Columbiana County].
  - Knox County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Martinsburg [Knox County].
  - Meigs County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Martinsburg [Meigs County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Blair County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Martinsburg [Blair County].
- West Virginia
  - Berkeley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Martinsburg [Berkeley County].

More Orphans in Elliott 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 Elliott County.

Albert	Leadingham
	Lucile
Back Bone
Backbone	Riddle
	Ruin
Cann
Charity	Trench

Klein	Winkler

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 Martinsburg 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.