Do you know of Rio Vista ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Rio Vista. 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 Rio Vista.<1>

We found mention of Rio Vista as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Esmeralda County, Nevada.

Communities Also Named Rio Vista ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Rio Vista.

There is one other community in Nevada which is also named Rio Vista.

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

Communities Located In Nevada ...
- Lyon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Rio Vista [Lyon County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - White County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Rio Vista [White County].
- California
  - Solano County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Rio Vista [Solano County].
- Florida
  - Pinellas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Rio Vista [Pinellas County].
- Georgia
  - Chatham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Rio Vista [Chatham County].
  - Dougherty County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Rio Vista [Dougherty County].
- Kentucky
  - Harlan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Rio Vista [Harlan County].
- Maryland
  - Talbot County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Rio Vista [Talbot County].
- Massachusetts
  - Middlesex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Rio Vista [Middlesex County].
- Tennessee
  - Blount County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Rio Vista [Blount County].
- Texas
  - Johnson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Rio Vista [Johnson County].
- Utah
  - Weber County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Rio Vista [Weber County].
- Virginia
  - Henrico County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Rio Vista [Henrico County].
  - Richmond County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Rio Vista [Richmond County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rio Vista ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Esmeralda 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 Esmeralda County.

Basalt	Pine Grove
Belleville
	Queen
Fletcher
	Rhode
Junction
	Soda Springs
Luning	Sodaville
	Summit
New Boston	Sweetwater

Footnotes ...

<1>

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.

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Rio Vista could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.