Do you know of Blue Springs ???

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

Our sources for Blue Springs (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 Blue Springs other than they indicate that Blue Springs would be found somewhere in Volusia County, Florida.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1866 and closed in 1876.

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 Blue Springs ...

We found 24 communities that share the name Blue Springs.

There are two communities within Florida that are also named Blue Springs.

Beyond Florida, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 22 communities, 22 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Located In Florida ...
- Hamilton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Blue Springs [Hamilton County].
- Lake 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 Florida community of Blue Springs [Lake County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Barbour County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Blue Springs [Barbour County].
  - Blount County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Blue Springs [Blount County].
  - Calhoun County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Blue Springs [Calhoun County].
  - Coosa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Blue Springs [Coosa County].
  - Covington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Blue Springs [Covington County].
- Arkansas
  - Bradley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Blue Springs [Bradley County].
  - Garland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Blue Springs [Garland County].
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Blue Springs.
- Georgia
  - Brooks County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Blue Springs [Brooks County].
  - Cobb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Blue Springs [Cobb County].
  - Screven County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Blue Springs [Screven County].
- Mississippi
  - Union County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Blue Springs [Union County].
- Missouri
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Blue Springs [Jackson County].
- Nebraska
  - Gage County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Blue Springs [Gage County].
- Nevada
  - Nye County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Blue Springs [Nye County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Blue Springs.
- Tennessee
  - Bradley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Blue Springs [Bradley County].
  - DeKalb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Blue Springs [DeKalb County].
  - Hamilton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Blue Springs [Hamilton County].
  - Roane County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Blue Springs [Roane County].
- Texas
  - San Augustine County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Blue Springs [San Augustine County].
- Utah
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Blue Springs [Washington County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Blue Springs ...

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

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 Blue Springs - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Blue Springs.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 12/07150 (Place Name: Blue Springs)

County: Volusia (FIPS State/County: 12/127)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Blue Springs) 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 Volusia 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 Volusia County.

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 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 Blue Springs 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/