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Welcome to Hurricane Bridge ...So far, we found very little information about Hurricane Bridge. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Hurricane Bridge to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Hurricane Bridge, please Contact Us. Hurricane Bridge would have been located within present day Putnam County<2>. The location of Hurricane Bridge has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Hurricane Bridge, you might consider that their post office opened in 1851. A typical abbreviation for Hurricane Bridge: Hurricane Brg. (or less commonly used: Hurricane Brdg. or Hurricane Brdge.) While the community is gone, the present day location for Hurricane Bridge is 640 feet [195 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Hurricane Bridge was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time If Hurricane Bridge still existed, it would have been in the (304) & (681)<5> area codes. Communities near Hurricane Bridge ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Hurricane Bridge.
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 Hurricane Bridge. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Hurricane Bridge. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Hurricane Bridge. 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 Hurricane Bridge. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Hurricane Bridge. See our Newspapers Page for Hurricane Bridge. Adding Hurricane Bridge to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Hurricane Bridge 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 Hurricane Bridge was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> We also found Hurricane Bridge in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870). For more details, see References and Mentions for Hurricane Bridge. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of West Virginia: https://www.wv.gov/ Footnotes ...
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