Do you know of Hutchinson ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 and closed in 1894.

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 Hutchinson ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Hutchinson.

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

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

Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Loudoun County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Hutchinson [Loudoun County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Independence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Hutchinson [Independence County].
- Colorado
  - 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 Colorado community of Hutchinson [Jefferson County].
- Kansas
  - Reno County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Hutchinson [Reno County].
- Michigan
  - Tuscola 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 Hutchinson [Tuscola County].
- Minnesota
  - McLeod County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Hutchinson [McLeod County].
- Nebraska
  - Deuel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Hutchinson [Deuel County].
- New Jersey
  - Warren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Hutchinson [Warren County].
- North Carolina
  - Gaston County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Hutchinson [Gaston County].
- Ohio
  - Monroe 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 Ohio community of Hutchinson [Monroe County].
- Oregon
  - Baker County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Hutchinson [Baker County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Fayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Hutchinson [Fayette County].
  - Westmoreland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Hutchinson [Westmoreland County].
- West Virginia
  - Logan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Hutchinson [Logan County].
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Hutchinson [Marion County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hutchinson ...

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

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 Hutchinson - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in Wise 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 Wise 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 Hutchinson 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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