Do you know of Brashears ???

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

Our sources for Brashears (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 Brashears other than they indicate that Brashears would be found somewhere in Wise County, Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1907 and closed  in 1911.

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 Brashears ...

We found three communities that share the name Brashears.

Within Virginia, the name Brashears is unique.

Beyond Virginia, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arkansas
    • Madison County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Brashears [Madison County].
  • Louisiana
    • East Baton Rouge Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Brashears [East Baton Rouge Parish].
  • Ohio
    • Hocking County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Brashears [Hocking County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Brashears ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Wise 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 Wise County.