Do you know of Kingsbury ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Kingsbury. 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 Kingsbury.

Our sources for Kingsbury (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Kingsbury other than they indicate that Kingsbury would be found somewhere in Wood County, West Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1891 and closed  in 1906.

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.

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.

Communities Also Named Kingsbury ...

We found ten communities that share the name Kingsbury.

Within West Virginia, the name Kingsbury is unique.

Beyond West Virginia, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, nine are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Indiana
    • LaPorte County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Kingsbury [LaPorte County].
  • Maine
    • Piscataquis County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Kingsbury [Piscataquis County].
  • Nevada
    • Douglas County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Kingsbury [Douglas County].
  • New York
    • Washington County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Kingsbury [Washington County].
  • Ohio
    • Meigs County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Kingsbury [Meigs County].
    • Trumbull County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Kingsbury [Trumbull County].
  • Quebec
    • Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Kingsbury.
  • South Carolina
    • Lancaster County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Kingsbury [Lancaster County].
  • Tennessee
    • Montgomery County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Kingsbury [Montgomery County].
  • Texas
    • Guadalupe County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Kingsbury [Guadalupe County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Kingsbury ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Kingsbury:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Kingsbury - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Rand McNally Map of West Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Wood County ...

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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 Wood County.