Do you know of Buchanan ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Buchanan. 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 Buchanan.
Our sources for Buchanan (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 Buchanan other than they indicate that Buchanan would be found somewhere in Granville County, North Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1856 and closed in 1906.
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 Buchanan ...
We found 33 communities that share the name Buchanan.
Within North Carolina, the name Buchanan is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another 33 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 33 communities, 31 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Fresno 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 Buchanan [Fresno County].
- Madera County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Buchanan [Madera County].
- Tuolumne County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Buchanan [Tuolumne County].
- Colorado
- Florida
- Hardee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Buchanan [Hardee County].
- Georgia
- DeKalb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Buchanan [DeKalb County].
- Fulton 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 Georgia community of Buchanan [Fulton County].
- Haralson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Buchanan [Haralson County].
- Indiana
- Floyd County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Buchanan [Floyd County].
- Iowa
- Cedar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Buchanan [Cedar County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Buchanan [Lawrence County].
- Michigan
- Berrien County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Buchanan [Berrien County].
- Missouri
- Bollinger County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Buchanan [Bollinger County].
- Nebraska
- New Mexico
- DeBaca County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Buchanan [DeBaca County].
- New York
- Westchester County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Buchanan [Westchester County].
- North Dakota
- Emmons 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 North Dakota community of Buchanan [Emmons County].
- Stutsman County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Buchanan [Stutsman County].
- Ohio
- Monroe 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 Ohio community of Buchanan [Monroe County].
- Perry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Buchanan [Perry County].
- Pike County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Buchanan [Pike County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Buchanan.
- Oregon
- Benton 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 Oregon community of Buchanan [Benton County].
- Harney County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Buchanan [Harney County].
- Pennsylvania
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Buchanan.
- Tennessee
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Buchanan [Henry County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Botetourt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Buchanan [Botetourt County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Buchanan ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Buchanan:
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 Buchanan - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Granville 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 Granville 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Buchanan 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/ |