Do you know of Bray ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bray. 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 Bray.<1>

Our sources for Bray (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Bray other than they indicate that Bray would be found somewhere in Polk County, Minnesota.

Communities Also Named Bray ...

We found seven communities that share the name Bray.

Within Minnesota, the name Bray is unique.

Beyond Minnesota, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seven communities, six are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Siskiyou County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Bray [Siskiyou County].
- Georgia
  - Lowndes County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Bray [Lowndes County].
- Kansas
  - Sherman County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Bray [Sherman County].
- Oklahoma
  - Stephens County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Bray [Stephens County].
- Ontario
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Bray.
- Tennessee
  - Hancock County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Bray [Hancock County].
  - Shelby County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Bray [Shelby County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bray ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Polk 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 Polk County.

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 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 Bray 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.