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Welcome to Boyd ...So far, we found very little information about Boyd. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Boyd to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Boyd, please Contact Us. Boyd would have been located within present day Upshur County<2>. The location of Boyd has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Boyd, you might consider that their post office opened in 1891. While the community is gone, the present day location for Boyd is 1,600 feet [488 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Boyd was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time The location where Boyd once stood is in the (304) and (681)<5> area codes. Communities Also Named Boyd ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 37 communities that are also named Boyd - they are located in Alabama (2), Arkansas (3), California (2), Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Manitoba, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri (2), Montana (2), Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania (4), South Carolina (2), Tennessee, Texas (2) and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Boyd. Communities near Boyd ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Boyd.
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 Boyd. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Boyd. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Boyd. 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 Boyd. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Boyd. See our Newspapers Page for Boyd. Adding Boyd to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Boyd 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 Boyd was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> We also found Boyd in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Boyd. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of West Virginia: https://www.wv.gov/ Footnotes ...
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