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Do you know of Buck Shoals ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Buck Shoals. 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 Buck Shoals.<1>

We found mention of Buck Shoals as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Rutherford County, North Carolina.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1839 and closed  in 1847.

Communities Also Named Buck Shoals ...

We found one communities that share the name Buck Shoals.

There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Buck Shoals.

Beyond North Carolina.

  • Communities Located In North Carolina ...
    • Yadkin County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Buck Shoals [Yadkin County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Buck Shoals ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in  Rutherford 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 Rutherford County.

Accomodate 
AyrIsland Ford
 Itom
Bostic Yard 
BrittainKine
Bruno 
Burnt ChimneyLanes Store
ButcherLine
 Logan's Store
Cedar Creek 
CliffdaleMemory
Cliffside JunctionMillwood
 Myrtle
Darlington 
DavisvilleOak Spring
DuncanOakland
  
EdgingPescud
 Pinckney
First Broad 
 Reedsville
Gambles StoreRiver Haven
Garnet 
Golden ValleySandy Plains
Grassy Knob 
Green RiverThermal
 Tiger
HamricTwitty
Harmonsville 
HicksvilleWashburn Store
HollyWeavers

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.
<3>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 Buck Shoals 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.
<4>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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