Do you know of Bangor ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bangor. 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 Bangor.
Our sources for Bangor (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 Bangor other than they indicate that Bangor would be found somewhere in Wake County, North Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 and closed in 1904.
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 Bangor ...
We found nineteen communities that share the name Bangor.
Within North Carolina, the name Bangor is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Blount County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Bangor [Blount County].
- California
- Butte County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Bangor [Butte County].
- Iowa
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Bangor [Marshall County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Maine
- Penobscot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Bangor [Penobscot County].
- Michigan
- Van Buren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Bangor [Van Buren County].
- Minnesota
- New York
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Bangor [Franklin County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Bangor.
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- Northampton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bangor [Northampton County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Bangor.
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Bangor.
- South Dakota
- Walworth County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Bangor [Walworth County].
- Washington
- Kitsap County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Bangor [Kitsap County].
- Wisconsin
- Fond du Lac 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 Wisconsin community of Bangor [Fond du Lac County].
- La Crosse County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Bangor [La Crosse County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bangor ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bangor:
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 Bangor - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Wake 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 Wake 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 Bangor 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/ |