Do you know of Busby ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Busby. 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 Busby.<1>
Our sources for Busby (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 Busby other than they indicate that Busby would be found somewhere in Union County, Mississippi.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1893 and closed in 1908.
Communities Also Named Busby ...
We found nine communities that share the name Busby.
There is one other community in Mississippi which is also named Busby.
Beyond Mississippi, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, six are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Mississippi ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Busby.
- Kansas
- Elk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Busby [Elk County].
- Montana
- Big Horn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Busby [Big Horn County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Busby.
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Busby.
- Tennessee
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Busby [Lawrence County].
- Texas
- Fisher County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Busby [Fisher County].
- Washington
- Whitman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Busby [Whitman County].
- Alberta
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Busby ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Busby:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
Rand McNally Map of Mississippi (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Union 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 Union County.
| Avanelle | |
| Peck | |
| Claysville | Poplar Springs |
| Gaston | Rockwall |
| Lenox | Speck |
| Libra | |
| Long | Tandyville |
| Orienta | West Union |
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> | 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 Busby 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. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |