Do you know of Bluff Dale ???

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

Our sources for Bluff Dale (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 Bluff Dale other than they indicate that Bluff Dale would be found somewhere in Greene County, Illinois.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1829 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 Bluff Dale ...

We found one communities that share the name Bluff Dale.

Within Illinois, the name Bluff Dale is unique.

Beyond Illinois, there is another community also named Bluff Dale in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Texas
    • Erath County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Bluff Dale [Erath County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bluff Dale ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Bluff Dale - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in  Greene County ...

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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 Greene County.