Do you know of Bailey ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bailey. 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 Bailey.
Our sources for Bailey (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 Bailey other than they indicate that Bailey would be found somewhere in Lee County, Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1879 and closed in 1891.
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 Bailey ...
We found 29 communities that share the name Bailey.
There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Bailey.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 28 communities, 28 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Tazewell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Bailey [Tazewell County].
- Tazewell County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Independence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Bailey [Independence County].
- California
- Colorado
- Park County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Bailey [Park County].
- Florida
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Bailey [Madison County].
- Georgia
- Hall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Bailey [Hall County].
- Iowa
- Mitchell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Bailey [Mitchell County].
- Kentucky
- Harlan 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 Kentucky community of Bailey [Harlan County].
- Rowan County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Bailey [Rowan County].
- Louisiana
- Tangipahoa Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Bailey [Tangipahoa Parish].
- Michigan
- Muskegon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Bailey [Muskegon County].
- Minnesota
- Sherburne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Bailey [Sherburne County].
- Mississippi
- Lauderdale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Bailey [Lauderdale County].
- Missouri
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Bailey [Jefferson County].
- Pulaski 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 Missouri community of Bailey [Pulaski County].
- Nevada
- Lander County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Bailey [Lander County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Bailey.
- New York
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Bailey [Monroe County].
- North Carolina
- Davie 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 Bailey [Davie County].
- Mitchell County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Bailey [Mitchell County].
- Nash County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Bailey [Nash County].
- Ohio
- Lucas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bailey [Lucas County].
- Oklahoma
- Grady County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Bailey [Grady County].
- Pennsylvania
- Perry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bailey [Perry County].
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Bailey [Shelby County].
- Texas
- Fannin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Bailey [Fannin County].
- Utah
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bailey ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bailey:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Bailey - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Lee 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 Lee 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 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 Bailey 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |