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Do you know of Piercy ???

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

Our sources for Piercy (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 Piercy other than they indicate that Piercy would be found somewhere in Jackson County, West Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1889 and closed  in 1904.

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 Piercy ...

We found one communities that share the name Piercy.

Within West Virginia, the name Piercy is unique.

Beyond West Virginia, there is another community also named Piercy in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Mendocino County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Piercy [Mendocino County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Piercy ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Jackson 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 Jackson County.

BakersHogg
Beaysville 
BrewsterJackson
  
CarthageKera Landing
Chase 
Crow SummitLe Roy
  
DouglassMurrayville
DudeonMuses Bottom
  
Elk ForkNorth Hill
Emma 
 Portland
Fisher's Point 
FlinnRavenswood Works
Foster ChapelRipling Waters
Frozen CampRock Castle
Frozencamp 
 Sandy
Grass LickSayre
  
HarpersWarren

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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