Do you know of Pughtown ???

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

We found mention of Pughtown as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Hancock 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.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1911 and closed  in 1967.

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 Pughtown ...

We found one communities that share the name Pughtown.

Within West Virginia, the name Pughtown is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Pennsylvania
    • Chester County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Pughtown [Chester County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pughtown ...

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

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Pughtown.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 54/65932   (Place Name: Pughtown)

County: Hancock     (FIPS State/County: 54/029)

Class: X3

More Orphans in  Hancock 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 Hancock County.