Do you know of Brownwood ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Brownwood. 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 Brownwood.<1>
Our source wasn't clear whether Brownwood was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Brownwood would be found somewhere in Fayette County, West Virginia.
Communities Also Named Brownwood ...
We found nine communities that share the name Brownwood.
Within West Virginia, the name Brownwood is unique.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Tazewell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Brownwood [Tazewell County].
- Missouri
- Stoddard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Brownwood [Stoddard County].
- North Carolina
- Ashe County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Brownwood [Ashe County].
- Texas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Brownwood ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Brownwood:
SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Appalachia & Piedmont
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Brownwood.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 54/10804 (Place Name: Brownwood (RR name for Lawton))
County: Fayette (FIPS State/County: 54/019)
Class: X3
More Orphans in Fayette 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 Fayette County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |