Do you know of Branchville ???

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

Our sources for Branchville (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 Branchville other than they indicate that Branchville would be found somewhere in Sussex County, New Jersey.

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 Branchville ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Branchville.

Within New Jersey, the name Branchville is unique.

Beyond New Jersey, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Saint Clair County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Branchville [Saint Clair County].
- Arkansas
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Branchville [Lincoln County].
- Connecticut
  - Fairfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Branchville [Fairfield County].
- Florida
  - Gadsden County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Branchville [Gadsden County].
- Georgia
  - Laurens 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 Branchville [Laurens County].
  - Mitchell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Branchville [Mitchell County].
- Indiana
  - Perry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Branchville [Perry County].
- Maryland
  - Prince George's County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Branchville [Prince George's County].
- Mississippi
  - Attala County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Branchville [Attala County].
- North Carolina
  - Robeson 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 Branchville [Robeson County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Erie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Branchville [Erie County].
- South Carolina
  - Orangeburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Branchville [Orangeburg County].
- Tennessee
  - Bedford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Branchville [Bedford County].
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Branchville [Franklin County].
- Texas
  - Milam County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Branchville [Milam County].
- Virginia
  - Southampton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Branchville [Southampton County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Branchville ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Branchville - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

George#&160;F. Cram Map of New Jersey (1905)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.

North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)

Shell Oil Road Map for New Jersey (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

More Orphans in Sussex 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 Sussex 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 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 Branchville 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.