Do you know of Bertha ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bertha. 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 Bertha.
Our sources for Bertha (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 Bertha other than they indicate that Bertha would be found somewhere in Knox County, Kentucky.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1899 and closed in 1915.
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 Bertha ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Bertha.
Within Kentucky, the name Bertha is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Dale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Bertha [Dale County].
- Arkansas
- Pope County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Bertha [Pope County].
- California
- Florida
- Seminole County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Bertha [Seminole County].
- Maryland
- Calvert County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Bertha [Calvert County].
- Minnesota
- Todd County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Bertha [Todd County].
- Missouri
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Bertha [Douglas County].
- Nebraska
- Burt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Bertha [Burt County].
- North Carolina
- Currituck County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Bertha [Currituck County].
- Oregon
- Multnomah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Bertha [Multnomah County].
- Pennsylvania
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bertha [Washington County].
- Tennessee
- Virginia
- Wythe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Bertha [Wythe County].
- West Virginia
- Logan 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 West Virginia community of Bertha [Logan County].
- Summers County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Bertha [Summers County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bertha ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bertha:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Kentucky (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Bertha.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 21/06040 (Place Name: Bertha)
County: Knox (FIPS State/County: 21/121)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Bertha) 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 Knox 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 Knox 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 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 Bertha 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/ |