Do you know of Burnt Factory ???

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

Our sources for Burnt Factory (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 Burnt Factory other than they indicate that Burnt Factory would be found somewhere in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1855 and closed  in 1892.

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 Burnt Factory ...

We found three communities that share the name Burnt Factory.

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

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

• Communities Located In South Carolina ...
  • Marlboro County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Burnt Factory [Marlboro County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Virginia
    • Frederick County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Burnt Factory [Frederick County].
  • West Virginia
    • Morgan County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Burnt Factory [Morgan County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Burnt Factory ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

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

More Orphans in  Spartanburg 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 Spartanburg County.