Do you know of Bordeaux ???

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

Our sources for Bordeaux (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 Bordeaux other than they indicate that Bordeaux would be found somewhere in Abbeville County, South 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 Bordeaux ...

We found ten communities that share the name Bordeaux.

There is one other community in South Carolina which is also named Bordeaux.

Beyond South Carolina, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nine communities, nine are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Located In South Carolina ...
- McCormick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Bordeaux [McCormick County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Nebraska
  - Dawes County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Bordeaux [Dawes County].
- North Carolina
  - Cumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Bordeaux [Cumberland County].
- Oklahoma
  - Le Flore County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Bordeaux [Le Flore County].
- Quebec
  - Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Bordeaux.
- Tennessee
  - Davidson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Bordeaux [Davidson County].
- Virginia
  - Fairfax 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 Virginia community of Bordeaux [Fairfax County].
- Washington
  - Thurston County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Bordeaux [Thurston County].
- Wyoming
  - Laramie 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 Wyoming community of Bordeaux [Laramie County].
  - Platte County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Bordeaux [Platte County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bordeaux ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Bordeaux - 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

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

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

More Orphans in Abbeville 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 Abbeville 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 Bordeaux 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.