Do you know of Blue Ridge ???

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

We found mention of Blue Ridge as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Buncombe County, North Carolina.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1913 and closed in 1955.

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 Ridge ...

We found nineteen communities that share the name Blue Ridge.

There are two communities within North Carolina that are also named Blue Ridge.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, eighteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Henderson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Blue Ridge [Henderson County].
- Transylvania 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 North Carolina community of Blue Ridge [Transylvania County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Elmore County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Blue Ridge [Elmore County].
- Alberta
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Blue Ridge.
- Georgia
  - Fannin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Blue Ridge [Fannin County].
- Illinois
  - Piatt County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Blue Ridge [Piatt County].
- Indiana
  - Shelby County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Blue Ridge [Shelby County].
- Mississippi
  - Jasper County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Blue Ridge [Jasper County].
- Missouri
  - Harrison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Blue Ridge [Harrison County].
- New York
  - Essex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Blue Ridge [Essex County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Bucks County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Blue Ridge [Bucks County].
  - Franklin 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 Blue Ridge [Franklin County].
- South Carolina
  - Greenville County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Blue Ridge [Greenville County].
- Tennessee
  - Sullivan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Blue Ridge [Sullivan County].
- Texas
  - Collin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Blue Ridge [Collin County].
  - Falls County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Blue Ridge [Falls County].
- Virginia
  - Augusta 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 Virginia community of Blue Ridge [Augusta County].
  - Botetourt County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Blue Ridge [Botetourt County].
- Washington
  - King County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Blue Ridge [King County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Blue Ridge ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

The FIPS database contains an entry for Blue Ridge.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 37/06540 (Place Name: Blue Ridge)

County: Buncombe (FIPS State/County: 37/021)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Blue Ridge) 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 Buncombe 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 Buncombe 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 Ridge 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/