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Welcome to Bridle Creek ...

Bridle Creek is located in Grayson County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Bridle Creek, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1842.

A typical abbreviation for Bridle Creek: Bridle Crk. (or less commonly used: Bridle Ck. or Bridle Cr.)

Bridle Creek is 2,630 feet [802 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the elevation of Bridle Creek is ½ mile above sea level.

Time Zone: Bridle Creek lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Bridle Creek: 276

Communities Also Named Bridle Creek ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Bridle Creek - it's located in North Carolina.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Bridle Creek.

Communities near Bridle Creek ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Bridle Creek.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Bridle Creek. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Bridle Creek.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Bridle Creek. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bridle Creek.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Bridle Creek. See our Newspapers Page for Bridle Creek.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Bridle Creek ...

Looking for more information about Bridle Creek? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Bridle Creek, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Bridle Creek.

Adding Bridle Creek to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Bridle Creek in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Bridle Creek was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

X2X - From that list, the Bridle Creek post office opened in 1842.

We also found Bridle Creek in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Bridle Creek.

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Bridle Creek. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Virginia: https://www.virginia.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Virginia's counties, including Grayson, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Bridle Creek - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<6>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/




 

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