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Do you know of Bluff ???

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

We found mention of Bluff as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Sauk County, Wisconsin.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1850 and closed  in 1869.

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 Bluff ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Bluff.

Within Wisconsin, the name Bluff is unique.

Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Fayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Bluff [Fayette County].
    • Alaska
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Bluff.
    • Georgia
      • Chatham County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Bluff [Chatham County].
    • Kentucky
      • Caldwell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Bluff [Caldwell County].
    • Mississippi
      • Tippah County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Bluff [Tippah County].
    • New Brunswick
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Bluff.
    • North Carolina
      • Madison County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Bluff [Madison County].
    • Ohio
      • Coshocton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bluff [Coshocton County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Choctaw County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Bluff [Choctaw County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Greene County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bluff [Greene County].
    • Texas
      • Fayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Bluff [Fayette County].
    • Utah
      • San Juan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Bluff [San Juan County].
    • West Virginia
      • Summers 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 West Virginia community of Bluff [Summers County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bluff ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

More Orphans in  Sauk 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 Sauk County.

AblemanKirkwood
  
Cassell PrairieLimeridge
Cliff House 
CollamerMerrimack
  
DellonaOaks
Delton 
Devils LakeRidge
  
FreedomSauk City - Prairie du Sac
  
King's CornersWhite Mound
Kirkland 

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Bluff 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.
<2>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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