Do you know of Belva ???

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

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

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 Belva ...

We found three communities that share the name Belva.

Within Arkansas, the name Belva is unique.

Beyond Arkansas, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • North Carolina
    • Madison County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Belva [Madison County].
  • Oklahoma
    • Woodward County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Belva [Woodward County].
  • West Virginia
    • Fayette County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Belva [Fayette County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Belva ...

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

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

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

William Bradley Map (1889)
Published by William M. Bradley and Brothers

More Orphans in  Scott 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 Scott County.