Do you know of Herd ???

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

Our sources for Herd (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 Herd other than they indicate that Herd would be found somewhere in Boyd County, Kentucky.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1900 and closed  in 1906.

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 Herd ...

We found two communities that share the name Herd.

There is one other community in Kentucky which is also named Herd.

Beyond Kentucky, there is another community also named Herd in the United States.

• Communities Located In Kentucky ...
  • Jackson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Herd [Jackson County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Oklahoma
    • Osage County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Herd [Osage County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Herd ...

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

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

George#&160;F. Cram Map (1905)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.

More Orphans in  Boyd 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 Boyd County.