Do you know of Blue Valley ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Blue Valley. 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 Blue Valley.<1>
Our source wasn't clear whether Blue Valley was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Blue Valley would be found somewhere in Jackson County, Missouri.
Communities Also Named Blue Valley ...
We found two communities that share the name Blue Valley.
Within Missouri, the name Blue Valley is unique.
Beyond Missouri, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
- Clear Creek County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Blue Valley [Clear Creek County].
- Nebraska
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Blue Valley [York County].
- Colorado
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Blue Valley ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Blue Valley:
SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Prairies East & Ozarks
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Blue Valley.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 29/06688 (Place Name: Blue Valley)
County: Jackson (FIPS State/County: 29/095)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Blue Valley) 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 Jackson 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 Jackson County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |