What is "birchville"

Birchville is a suburb of Upper Hutt, New Zealand in the North Island. Its centre lies at the entrance to the Akatarawa Valley, in the north of the city, near confluence of the Akatarawa Stream with the Hutt River. It is about a 5 km (10-minute) drive north from the centre of Upper Hutt. The Birchville community is spread out along both banks of the Hutt River in a long fairly narrow valley.

Birchville usually refers to a suburb of Upper Hutt in New Zealand. However there are several other places in the world that either are, or have previously been named Birchville. Consider these alternatives:

• Birchville, California is a former settlement in Nevada County, California.
• Birchville was the original name of Pinos Altos, New Mexico, after Robert H. Birch and two other prospectors discovered gold there in 1860.
• Birchville is an inactive village placename in Massachusetts.
• Birchville, Texas, now a ghost town, in Hudspeth County, Texas, was a settlement on the San Antonio-El Paso Road and later a stagecoach station on the Butterfield Overland Mail route.