Do you know of Spruce Hill ???

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

Our sources for Spruce Hill (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 Spruce Hill other than they indicate that Spruce Hill would be found somewhere in Douglas County, Minnesota.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1870 and closed  in 1894.

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 Spruce Hill ...

We found five communities that share the name Spruce Hill.

Within Minnesota, the name Spruce Hill is unique.

Beyond Minnesota, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Maryland
    • Calvert County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Spruce Hill [Calvert County].
  • Pennsylvania
    • Juniata County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Spruce Hill [Juniata County].
    • Monroe County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Spruce Hill [Monroe County].
    • Philadelphia County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Spruce Hill [Philadelphia County].
  • Virginia
    • Roanoke County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Spruce Hill [Roanoke County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Spruce Hill ...

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Douglas 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 Douglas County.