Do you know of Bayard ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bayard. 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 Bayard.
Our sources for Bayard (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 Bayard other than they indicate that Bayard would be found somewhere in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 and closed in 1919.
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 Bayard ...
We found sixteen communities that share the name Bayard.
Within Maryland, the name Bayard is unique.
Beyond Maryland, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Delaware
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Bayard [Sussex County].
- Florida
- Duval County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Bayard [Duval County].
- Georgia
- Harris County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Bayard [Harris County].
- Iowa
- Guthrie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Bayard [Guthrie County].
- Kansas
- Allen County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Bayard [Allen County].
- Nebraska
- Cheyenne 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 Nebraska community of Bayard [Cheyenne County].
- Morrill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Bayard [Morrill County].
- Nevada
- Elko County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Bayard [Elko County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Bayard.
- New Mexico
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Bayard [Grant County].
- Ohio
- Columbiana County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bayard [Columbiana County].
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Bayard.
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Bayard.
- Virginia
- West Virginia
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Bayard [Grant County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bayard ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bayard:
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 Bayard - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Anne Arundel 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 Anne Arundel 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 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 Bayard 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/ |