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Do you know of Dogwood Acres ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Dogwood Acres. 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 Dogwood Acres.

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Dogwood Acres, so we are uncertain whether Dogwood Acres is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Dogwood Acres would be found somewhere in Durham County, North Carolina.

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 Dogwood Acres ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Dogwood Acres.

There are six communities within North Carolina that are also named Dogwood Acres.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Located In North Carolina ...
    • Alamance County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Dogwood Acres [Alamance County].
    • Cumberland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Dogwood Acres [Cumberland County].
    • Orange County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Dogwood Acres [Orange County].
    • Randolph 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 Carolina community of Dogwood Acres [Randolph County].
    • Rowan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Dogwood Acres [Rowan County].
    • Union County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Dogwood Acres [Union County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Pike County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Dogwood Acres [Pike County].
    • Delaware
      • Sussex County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Dogwood Acres [Sussex County].
    • Georgia
      • Clayton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Dogwood Acres [Clayton County].
      • Douglas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Dogwood Acres [Douglas County].
    • Louisiana
      • Bossier Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Dogwood Acres [Bossier Parish].
    • South Carolina
      • Darlington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Dogwood Acres [Darlington County].
      • Greenville County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Dogwood Acres [Greenville County].
    • Tennessee
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Dogwood Acres [Washington County].
    • Texas
      • Harris County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Dogwood Acres [Harris County].
    • Virginia
      • Goochland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Dogwood Acres [Goochland County].

More Orphans in  Durham 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 Durham County.

BalltonLakewood
BilbaoLuster
 Lyndover
Dayton 
DukeMcCown
  
East DurhamNestor
ElerbeeNorth Durham
 Northgate
Fish Dam 
Flat RiverRobon
Forest HillsRockwood
  
GalvestonSheb
 Shepard
HaytiSouth Durham
HelenaSouth Lowell
HollowayStagville
Homestead Heights 
Hope ValleyUmbra
Huckleberry Heights 
 Wellons Village
KeaneWest Durham
 Williardville

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 Dogwood Acres 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.









 

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