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Welcome to Buckhorn ...So far, we found very little information about Buckhorn. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Buckhorn to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Buckhorn, please Contact Us. Buckhorn would have been located within present day Preston County<2>. The location of Buckhorn has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Buckhorn, you might consider that their post office opened in 1894. While the community is gone, the present day location for Buckhorn is 1,680 feet [512 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Buckhorn was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time The location where Buckhorn once stood is in the (304) & (681)<5> area codes. Communities Also Named Buckhorn ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 39 communities that are also named Buckhorn - they are located in Alabama (2), Arizona, Arkansas, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Florida (3), Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky (3), Louisiana, Michigan (3), Mississippi, Missouri (2), Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina (2), Ohio (2), Ontario, Pennsylvania (2), Texas (2), Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming (2). For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Buckhorn. Communities near Buckhorn ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Buckhorn.
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 Buckhorn. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Buckhorn. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Buckhorn. 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 Buckhorn. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Buckhorn. See our Newspapers Page for Buckhorn. Adding Buckhorn to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Buckhorn in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Buckhorn was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> We also found Buckhorn on a map titled Rand McNally Map of West Virginia (1911). For more details, see References and Mentions for Buckhorn. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of West Virginia: https://www.wv.gov/ Footnotes ...
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