Do you know of Hicksville ???

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

Our sources for Hicksville (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 Hicksville other than they indicate that Hicksville would be found somewhere in Bristol County, Massachusetts.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1858 and closed in 1858.

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 Hicksville ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Hicksville.

Within Massachusetts, the name Hicksville is unique.

Beyond Massachusetts, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Phillips County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Hicksville [Phillips County].
  - White County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Hicksville [White County].
- California
  - Sacramento County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Hicksville [Sacramento County].
- Kentucky
  - Graves County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Hicksville [Graves County].
  - Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Hicksville [Lawrence County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Hicksville.
- New York
  - Nassau County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Hicksville [Nassau County].
  - Queens 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 New York community of Hicksville [Queens County].
- North Carolina
  - Rutherford 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 North Carolina community of Hicksville [Rutherford County].
- Ohio
  - Defiance County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Hicksville [Defiance County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Armstrong County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Hicksville [Armstrong County].
- Tennessee
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Hicksville [Madison County].
- Virginia
  - Bland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Hicksville [Bland County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hicksville ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Hicksville.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 25/29825 (Place Name: Hicksville)

County: Bristol (FIPS State/County: 25/005)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Hicksville) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Bristol 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 Bristol County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Hicksville 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/