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Do you know of Amy ???

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

Our sources for Amy (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 Amy other than they indicate that Amy would be found somewhere in Amherst County, Virginia.

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 Amy ...

We found eight communities that share the name Amy.

Within Virginia, the name Amy is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Ouachita County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Amy [Ouachita County].
    • Kansas
      • Elk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Amy [Elk County].
      • Lane County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Amy [Lane County].
    • Michigan
      • Oakland County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Amy [Oakland County].
    • Mississippi
      • Jones County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Amy [Jones County].
    • Missouri
      • Howell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Amy [Howell County].
    • Texas
      • Delta County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Amy [Delta County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Dunn County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Amy [Dunn County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Amy ...

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Amherst 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 Amherst County.

Allen's Creek 
Amherst SpringsLeeds
 Leftwich
ChestnutLong Mountain
  
DillardMayflower
Dodds StoreMcIvors
 Mount Pleasant
ExperimentMundy's Mill
  
FalconervilleNew Glasgow Depot
Friar 
 Pryor
Gait's Mills 
GaitvilleRiversville
  
Harris CreekStapleton Mills
Henleys StoreStony Fork
HitchensvilleSwans
  
IdemWalkerford
 Way
James River 

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Amy 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.









 

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