Do you know of Brady ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Brady. 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 Brady.
Our sources for Brady (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 Brady other than they indicate that Brady would be found somewhere in Monongalia County, West Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1921 and closed in 1942.
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 Brady ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Brady.
Within West Virginia, the name Brady is unique.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Indiana
- Kentucky
- Rowan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Brady [Rowan County].
- Maryland
- Allegany County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Brady [Allegany County].
- Michigan
- Kalamazoo 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 Michigan community of Brady [Kalamazoo County].
- Ontonagon County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Brady [Ontonagon County].
- Saginaw County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Brady [Saginaw County].
- Montana
- Pondera County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Brady [Pondera County].
- Nebraska
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Brady [Lincoln County].
- Ohio
- Guernsey County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Brady [Guernsey County].
- Tuscarawas 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 Ohio community of Brady [Tuscarawas County].
- Oklahoma
- Garvin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Brady [Garvin County].
- Pennsylvania
- Clarion 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 Brady [Clarion County].
- Indiana County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Brady [Indiana County].
- Northumberland County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Brady [Northumberland County].
- Texas
- Washington
- Grays Harbor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Brady [Grays Harbor County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Brady ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Brady:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of West Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Brady.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 54/09724 (Place Name: Brady)
County: Monongalia (FIPS State/County: 54/061)
Class: X3
More Orphans in Monongalia 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 Monongalia County.
| Andy | Laurel Iron Works |
| Lemley | |
| Barclay | Low Gap |
| Beechwood | |
| Mona | |
| Center | |
| Charlotte | Saint Lee |
| Shriver | |
| Duke | Statler Run |
| Flickersville | Uneva |
| Guston | Vanvoorhis |
| Iron Bridge | White Day |
| Wise |
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 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 Brady 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/ |