Do you know of Birch ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Birch. 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 Birch.
Our sources for Birch (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 Birch other than they indicate that Birch would be found somewhere in Whitley County, Kentucky.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1908 and closed in 1915.
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 Birch ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Birch.
Within Kentucky, the name Birch is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Kansas
- Anderson 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 Kansas community of Birch [Anderson County].
- Sedgwick 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 Kansas community of Birch [Sedgwick County].
- Michigan
- Baraga 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 Birch [Baraga County].
- Marquette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Birch [Marquette County].
- Minnesota
- Saint Louis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Birch [Saint Louis County].
- Nebraska
- Pierce County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Birch [Pierce County].
- Nevada
- Eureka County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Birch [Eureka County].
- North Carolina
- Northwest Territories
- Please visit our profile page for the Northwest Territories community of Birch.
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- Clinton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Birch [Clinton County].
- Texas
- Burleson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Birch [Burleson County].
- Virginia
- Halifax County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Birch [Halifax County].
- Washington
- King County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Birch [King County].
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Ashland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Birch [Ashland County].
- Chippewa 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 Wisconsin community of Birch [Chippewa County].
- Kansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Birch ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Birch:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Kentucky (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Whitley 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 Whitley County.
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Birch 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/ |