Do you know of Gravel Hill ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Gravel Hill. 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 Gravel Hill.

Our sources for Gravel Hill (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Gravel Hill other than they indicate that Gravel Hill would be found somewhere in Bladen 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 Gravel Hill ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Gravel Hill.

Within North Carolina, the name Gravel Hill is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, eighteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Gravel Hill [Franklin County].
- Arkansas
  - Pope 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 Gravel Hill [Pope County].
  - Van Buren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Gravel Hill [Van Buren County].
  - White County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Gravel Hill [White County].
- Delaware
  - Sussex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Gravel Hill [Sussex County].
- Indiana
  - Benton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Gravel Hill [Benton County].
- Maryland
  - Garrett County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Gravel Hill [Garrett County].
- Mississippi
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Gravel Hill [Carroll County].
- Missouri
  - Cape Girardeau County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Gravel Hill [Cape Girardeau County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Gravel Hill.
- New Jersey
  - Middlesex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Gravel Hill [Middlesex County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Gravel Hill.
- Pennsylvania
  - Lebanon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Gravel Hill [Lebanon County].
- South Carolina
  - Allendale County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Gravel Hill [Allendale County].
  - Berkeley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Gravel Hill [Berkeley County].
  - Orangeburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Gravel Hill [Orangeburg County].
- Tennessee
  - McNairy County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Gravel Hill [McNairy County].
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Gravel Hill [Washington County].
- Virginia
  - Buckingham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Gravel Hill [Buckingham County].
  - Richmond City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Gravel Hill [Richmond City].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Gravel Hill ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Gravel Hill - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Bladen County ...

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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 Bladen County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Gravel Hill 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.