Do you know of Boyd ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Boyd. 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 Boyd.
Our sources for Boyd (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 Boyd other than they indicate that Boyd would be found somewhere in Rockingham County, North Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1884 and closed in 1905.
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 Boyd ...
We found 37 communities that share the name Boyd.
Within North Carolina, the name Boyd is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another 37 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 37 communities, 35 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Lafayette 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 Arkansas community of Boyd [Lafayette County].
- Lonoke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Boyd [Lonoke County].
- Miller County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Boyd [Miller County].
- California
- Sacramento 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 California community of Boyd [Sacramento County].
- San Joaquin 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 California community of Boyd [San Joaquin County].
- Florida
- Taylor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Boyd [Taylor County].
- Illinois
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Boyd [Jefferson County].
- Indiana
- Rush County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Boyd [Rush County].
- Iowa
- Chickasaw County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Boyd [Chickasaw County].
- Kansas
- Barton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Boyd [Barton County].
- Kentucky
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Boyd [Harrison County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Boyd.
- Michigan
- Allegan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Boyd [Allegan County].
- Minnesota
- Lac qui Parle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Boyd [Lac qui Parle County].
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nevada
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Boyd [Lincoln County].
- New Mexico
- Dona Ana County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Boyd [Dona Ana County].
- New York
- Oklahoma
- Beaver County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Boyd [Beaver County].
- Ontario
- Oregon
- Wasco County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Boyd [Wasco County].
- Pennsylvania
- Adams 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 Pennsylvania community of Boyd [Adams County].
- Allegheny 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 Pennsylvania community of Boyd [Allegheny County].
- Dauphin 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 Pennsylvania community of Boyd [Dauphin County].
- Northumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Boyd [Northumberland County].
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Boyd [Knox County].
- Texas
- West Virginia
- Upshur County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Boyd [Upshur County].
- Wisconsin
- Chippewa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Boyd [Chippewa County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Boyd ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Boyd:
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 Boyd - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Rockingham 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 Rockingham 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 Boyd 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/ |