Do you know of Buck Hollow ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Buck Hollow. 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 Buck Hollow.
Our sources for Buck Hollow (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 Buck Hollow other than they indicate that Buck Hollow would be found somewhere in Franklin County, Vermont.
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 Buck Hollow ...
We found one communities that share the name Buck Hollow.
Within Vermont, the name Buck Hollow is unique.
Beyond Vermont, there is another community also named Buck Hollow in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Texas
- Kimble County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Buck Hollow [Kimble County].
- Texas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Buck Hollow ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Buck Hollow:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Buck Hollow - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
Rand McNally Map of Vermont (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Buck Hollow.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 50/10150 (Place Name: Buck Hollow)
County: Franklin (FIPS State/County: 50/011)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Buck Hollow) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Franklin 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 Franklin County.