Do you know of Buckhorn ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Buckhorn. 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 Buckhorn.
We found mention of Buckhorn as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Adams 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 1869 and closed in 1880.
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 Buckhorn ...
We found 40 communities that share the name Buckhorn.
There is one other community in Wisconsin which is also named Buckhorn.
Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another 39 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 39 communities, 38 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Wisconsin ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arizona
- Maricopa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Buckhorn [Maricopa County].
- Arkansas
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Buckhorn [Lee County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Buckhorn.
- California
- Ventura County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Buckhorn [Ventura County].
- Colorado
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Buckhorn [Hillsborough County].
- Taylor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Buckhorn [Taylor County].
- Wakulla County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Buckhorn [Wakulla County].
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Brown County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Buckhorn [Brown County].
- Iowa
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Buckhorn [Jackson County].
- Kentucky
- Clay 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 Kentucky community of Buckhorn [Clay County].
- Knott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Buckhorn [Knott County].
- Perry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Buckhorn [Perry County].
- Louisiana
- Webster Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Buckhorn [Webster Parish].
- Michigan
- Berrien County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Buckhorn [Berrien County].
- Cheboygan 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 Buckhorn [Cheboygan County].
- Oakland County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Buckhorn [Oakland County].
- Mississippi
- Pontotoc County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Buckhorn [Pontotoc County].
- Missouri
- Nevada
- Eureka County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Buckhorn [Eureka County].
- New Mexico
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Buckhorn [Grant County].
- North Carolina
- Cumberland 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 North Carolina community of Buckhorn [Cumberland County].
- Orange County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Buckhorn [Orange County].
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Buckhorn.
- Pennsylvania
- Texas
- Virginia
- Washington
- San Juan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Buckhorn [San Juan County].
- West Virginia
- Preston County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Buckhorn [Preston County].
- Wyoming
- Laramie 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 Wyoming community of Buckhorn [Laramie County].
- Weston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Buckhorn [Weston County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Buckhorn ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Buckhorn:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Adams 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 Adams County.
| Davis Corners | Niebull |
| Glen | Olin |
| Holmsville | Plin |
| Point Bluff | |
| Little Lake | |
| Spring Bluff | |
| New Haven | Spring Creek |
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 Buckhorn 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/ |