Do you know of Bradshaw ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bradshaw. 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 Bradshaw.<1>
We found mention of Bradshaw as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Union County, Illinois.
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.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1875 and closed in 1881.
Communities Also Named Bradshaw ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Bradshaw.
Within Illinois, the name Bradshaw is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Indiana
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Missouri
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Bradshaw [Washington County].
- Nebraska
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Bradshaw [York County].
- New Mexico
- Roosevelt County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Bradshaw [Roosevelt County].
- North Carolina
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Bradshaw.
- Tennessee
- Giles County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Bradshaw [Giles County].
- Texas
- Cherokee County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Bradshaw [Cherokee County].
- McCulloch County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Bradshaw [McCulloch County].
- Taylor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Bradshaw [Taylor County].
- Virginia
- Roanoke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Bradshaw [Roanoke County].
- West Virginia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bradshaw ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bradshaw:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
More Orphans in Union 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 Union County.
| Big Barn | |
| Renolds | |
| Mile Thirty Two | |
| Millcreek | South Pass |
| Oakville | Toledo |
| Penninger | Weaver Hill |
| Pinus | Western Saratoga |
| Progress |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Bradshaw 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. |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |