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Do you know of West Brentwood ???

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

Our sources for West Brentwood (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 West Brentwood other than they indicate that West Brentwood would be found somewhere in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1881 and closed  in 1910.

Communities Also Named West Brentwood ...

We found one communities that share the name West Brentwood.

Within New Hampshire, the name West Brentwood is unique.

Beyond New Hampshire, there is another community also named West Brentwood in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • New York
      • Suffolk County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of West Brentwood [Suffolk County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Brentwood ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

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

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for West Brentwood.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 33/81060   (Place Name: West Brentwood)

County: Rockingham     (FIPS State/County: 33/015)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, West Brentwood) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Rockingham 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 Rockingham County.

Atkinson DepotHedding
Atkinson Station 
Auburn StationJenness Beach
  
Beans IslandLittle Fields
Beaver LakeLondonderry Station
  
Candia DepotMarshall Farms
Candia VillageMillville Lake
Canoble Lake 
CartervilleNewmarket Compact
 Newton Depot
Derry CompactNottingham Turnpike
Derry Depot 
Derry StationOld Northwood
  
East BrentwoodPickpocket Woods
East ChesterPoplin
East Epping 
East KensingtonSalem Center
East NorthwoodSalem Station
East NottinghamSouth New Market
Epping CompactSouth Raymond
Exeter CompactSouth Windham
Exeter WestStrawbery Banke
  
Fessenden MillsWentworth By The Sea
 West Deerfield
Greenland DepotWest Northwood
 Wilson's Crossings
Hampton CompactWindham Station

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>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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 West Brentwood 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.
<3>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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