Do you know of Bedford ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Bedford, so we are uncertain whether Bedford 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 Bedford would be found somewhere in Shenandoah County, Virginia.

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 Bedford ...

We found 32 communities that share the name Bedford.

There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Bedford.

Beyond Virginia, we know of another 31 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 31 communities, 27 are located in the United States and five are in Canada.

Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Bedford City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Bedford [Bedford City].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Lamar County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Bedford [Lamar County].
- Arkansas
  - Sebastian 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 Arkansas community of Bedford [Sebastian County].
- Illinois
  - Pike County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Bedford [Pike County].
- Indiana
  - Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Bedford [Lawrence County].
- Iowa
  - Taylor County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Bedford [Taylor County].
- Kansas
  - Stafford 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 Kansas community of Bedford [Stafford County].
- Kentucky
  - Trimble County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Bedford [Trimble County].
- Louisiana
  - Madison Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Bedford [Madison Parish].
  - Red River Parish
  - 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 Louisiana community of Bedford [Red River Parish].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Bedford.
- Massachusetts
  - Middlesex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Bedford [Middlesex County].
- Michigan
  - Calhoun County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Bedford [Calhoun County].
  - Wayne 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 Michigan community of Bedford [Wayne County].
- Missouri
  - Livingston County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Bedford [Livingston County].
- Montana
  - Broadwater County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Bedford [Broadwater County].
  - Jefferson 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 Montana community of Bedford [Jefferson County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Bedford.
- New Hampshire
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Bedford [Hillsborough County].
- New York
  - Kings 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 New York community of Bedford [Kings County].
  - Westchester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Bedford [Westchester County].
- North Carolina
  - Pitt County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Bedford [Pitt County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Bedford.
- Ohio
  - Cuyahoga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bedford [Cuyahoga County].
- Oklahoma
  - Osage 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 Oklahoma community of Bedford [Osage County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Bedford.
- Pennsylvania
  - Bedford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bedford [Bedford County].
- Quebec
  - 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 Quebec community of Bedford.
- Tennessee
  - Bedford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Bedford [Bedford County].
- Texas
  - Tarrant County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Bedford [Tarrant County].
- Washington
  - Pacific County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Bedford [Pacific County].
- Wyoming
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Bedford [Lincoln County].

More Orphans in Shenandoah 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 Shenandoah 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 Bedford 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.