Do you know of Bay City ???

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

Our sources for Bay City (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 Bay City other than they indicate that Bay City would be found somewhere in Hernando County, Florida.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1887 and closed  in 1916.

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 Bay City ...

We found ten communities that share the name Bay City.

There is one other community in Florida which is also named Bay City.

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

• Communities Located In Florida ...
  • Franklin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Bay City [Franklin County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Colorado
    • La Plata County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Bay City [La Plata County].
  • Illinois
    • Pope County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Bay City [Pope County].
  • Maryland
    • Queen Anne's County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Bay City [Queen Anne's County].
  • Michigan
    • Bay County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Bay City [Bay County].
  • North Carolina
    • Pamlico County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Bay City [Pamlico County].
  • Oregon
    • Tillamook County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Bay City [Tillamook County].
  • Texas
    • Matagorda County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Bay City [Matagorda County].
  • Washington
    • Grays Harbor County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Bay City [Grays Harbor County].
  • Wisconsin
    • Pierce County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Bay City [Pierce County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bay City ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Bay City - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

More Orphans in  Hernando County ...

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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 Hernando County.