Do you know of Bluffton ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bluffton. 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 Bluffton.
Our sources for Bluffton (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 Bluffton other than they indicate that Bluffton would be found somewhere in Muskegon County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1868 and closed in 1892.
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 Bluffton ...
We found sixteen communities that share the name Bluffton.
Within Michigan, the name Bluffton is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Bluffton [Cherokee County].
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Bluffton.
- Arkansas
- Yell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Bluffton [Yell County].
- Florida
- Volusia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Bluffton [Volusia County].
- Georgia
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Bluffton [Clay County].
- Indiana
- Wells County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Bluffton [Wells County].
- Iowa
- Winneshiek County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Bluffton [Winneshiek County].
- Kansas
- Coffey 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 Bluffton [Coffey County].
- Ottawa 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 Bluffton [Ottawa County].
- Minnesota
- Otter Tail County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Bluffton [Otter Tail County].
- Missouri
- Ohio
- Allen County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bluffton [Allen County].
- South Carolina
- Beaufort County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Bluffton [Beaufort County].
- Tennessee
- Cocke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Bluffton [Cocke County].
- Texas
- Llano County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Bluffton [Llano County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bluffton ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bluffton:
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 Bluffton - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
The FIPS database contains an entry for Bluffton.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 26/09380 (Place Name: Bluffton)
County: Muskegon (FIPS State/County: 26/121)
Class: U4
Identifies a populated place (ie- Bluffton) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.
More Orphans in Muskegon 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 Muskegon 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Bluffton 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/ |