Do you know of Bethesda ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bethesda. 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 Bethesda.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Bethesda, so we are uncertain whether Bethesda is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Bethesda would be found somewhere in Greene County, Tennessee.
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 Bethesda ...
We found 22 communities that share the name Bethesda.
There are two communities within Tennessee that are also named Bethesda.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, 21 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Independence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Bethesda [Independence County].
- Delaware
- Kent County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Bethesda [Kent County].
- Georgia
- Chatham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Bethesda [Chatham County].
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Bethesda [Greene County].
- Gwinnett County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Bethesda [Gwinnett County].
- Iowa
- Page County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Bethesda [Page County].
- Kentucky
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Bethesda [Wayne County].
- Maryland
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Bethesda [Montgomery County].
- Mississippi
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- Lancaster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bethesda [Lancaster County].
- South Carolina
- Chesterfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Bethesda [Chesterfield County].
- Texas
- West Virginia
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Bethesda [Wayne County].
- Wisconsin
- Waukesha County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Bethesda [Waukesha County].
- Arkansas
More Orphans in Greene 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 Greene County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Bethesda 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. |