Do you know of Pierceville ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Pierceville, so we are uncertain whether Pierceville 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 Pierceville would be found somewhere in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

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 Pierceville ...

We found ten communities that share the name Pierceville.

Within Massachusetts, the name Pierceville is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
  - Fannin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Pierceville [Fannin County].
- Illinois
  - DeKalb 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 Illinois community of Pierceville [DeKalb County].
- Indiana
  - Ripley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Pierceville [Ripley County].
- Iowa
  - Van Buren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Pierceville [Van Buren County].
- Kansas
  - Finney County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Pierceville [Finney County].
- New York
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Pierceville [Madison County].
- North Carolina
  - Camden County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Pierceville [Camden County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Wyoming 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 Pennsylvania community of Pierceville [Wyoming County].
  - York County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Pierceville [York County].
- Wisconsin
  - Dane County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Pierceville [Dane County].

More Orphans in Plymouth 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 Plymouth County.

Agawam Beach	North Abbington
Antassawamock Beach	North Middleborough Station

Bridgewater Center	Oakdale Village
Brown's	Ocean Bluff - Brant Rock
	outh Duxbury
Center
Central Marshfield	Pembroke Center
	Pembroke Heights
Darby	Pembroke Pines
Duxbury Center	Plymouth Center
Duxbury Station	Plympton Station
	Point Allerton
East Marshfield
East Mattapoisett	Ridge Hill
East Middleboro
East Whitman	Sand Hill
	Sandhills
Furnace Pond Colony	Sea Side
	Snug Harbor
Halifax Station	South Abington Station
Hanleys Corner	South Abington
Hollywood	South Lakeville
	South Plymouth
Indian Mound Beach	South Scituate
Irvingston	State Farm
	Stoney Beach
Kingston Center	Surfside

Lakeville Center	Turnpike
Little Harbor Beach
Long Pond Village	Warren Terrace
	Webster Place
Marion Center	Weir River
Marion Station	West Bridgewater Center
Marshfield Compact	West Scituate
Mattapoisett Center	West Wind Shores
Middleborough Center	Whitehead
Mount Blue	Windmere
	Winslow Crossing
Nobska Beach

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 Pierceville 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.