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Do you know of Bull Run ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bull Run. 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 Bull Run. Our sources for Bull Run (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Bull Run other than they indicate that Bull Run would be found somewhere in Fairfax County, Virginia. 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 Bull Run ...We found eleven communities that share the name Bull Run. There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Bull Run. Beyond Virginia, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bull Run ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bull Run: Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Bull Run - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned The FIPS database contains an entry for Bull Run. Referenced FIPS Records ... FIPS Code: 51/11224 (Place Name: Bull Run) County: Fairfax (FIPS State/County: 51/059) Class: U8 Identifies a populated place (in this case, Bull Run) 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 Fairfax 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 Fairfax County. Footnotes ...
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