Do you know of Cordova ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cordova. 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 Cordova.
Our sources for Cordova (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Cordova other than they indicate that Cordova would be found somewhere in Culpeper County, Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1881 and closed in 1916.
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 Cordova ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Cordova.
Within Virginia, the name Cordova is unique.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, eighteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Walker County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cordova [Walker County].
- Alaska
- Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Cordova.
- California
- Sacramento County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Cordova [Sacramento County].
- Georgia
- Clayton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Cordova [Clayton County].
- Colquitt 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 Georgia community of Cordova [Colquitt County].
- Illinois
- Rock Island County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Cordova [Rock Island County].
- Iowa
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Cordova [Marion County].
- Kentucky
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Cordova [Grant County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Cordova.
- Maryland
- Talbot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Cordova [Talbot County].
- Minnesota
- Le Sueur County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Cordova [Le Sueur County].
- Montana
- Teton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Cordova [Teton County].
- Nebraska
- Seward County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Cordova [Seward County].
- New Mexico
- Rio Arriba County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Cordova [Rio Arriba County].
- New York
- Chautauqua County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Cordova [Chautauqua County].
- North Carolina
- Richmond County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Cordova [Richmond County].
- Ontario
- South Carolina
- Orangeburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Cordova [Orangeburg County].
- Tennessee
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Cordova [Shelby County].
- West Virginia
- Greenbrier County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Cordova [Greenbrier County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cordova ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Cordova:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Cordova - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Cordova.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 51/19200 (Place Name: Cordova)
County: Culpeper (FIPS State/County: 51/047)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Cordova) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Culpeper 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 Culpeper County.
| Archie | |
| Inlet | |
| Brandy | Isabel |
| Carlin | Mitchell's Station |
| Declare | Olive |
| Oma | |
| Eckington | |
| Edwards Shop | Ryland |
| Fleetwood | Wat |
| Waylandsburg | |
| Hazel River | Winstonville |
| Hudson's Mill |
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Cordova 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |