Do you know of Bruceville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bruceville. 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 Bruceville.<1>
We found mention of Bruceville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Preston County, West Virginia.
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.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1853 and closed in 1853.
Communities Also Named Bruceville ...
We found ten communities that share the name Bruceville.
Within West Virginia, the name Bruceville is unique.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Bullock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Bruceville [Bullock County].
- California
- Sacramento County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Bruceville [Sacramento County].
- Florida
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Bruceville [Marion County].
- Indiana
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Bruceville [Knox County].
- Maryland
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Bruceville [Carroll County].
- Talbot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Bruceville [Talbot County].
- New York
- Ulster County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Bruceville [Ulster County].
- Tennessee
- Dyer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Bruceville [Dyer County].
- Texas
- McLennan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Bruceville [McLennan County].
- Virginia
- Lunenburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Bruceville [Lunenburg County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bruceville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bruceville:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
More Orphans in Preston 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 Preston 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. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at:
https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |