Do you know of Fair Oaks ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fair Oaks. 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 Fair Oaks.
Our sources for Fair Oaks (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 Fair Oaks other than they indicate that Fair Oaks would be found somewhere in Accomack 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 Fair Oaks ...
We found 28 communities that share the name Fair Oaks.
There are two communities within Virginia that are also named Fair Oaks.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 26 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Sumter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Fair Oaks [Sumter County].
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- Cross County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Fair Oaks [Cross County].
- California
- Los Angeles 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 California community of Fair Oaks [Los Angeles County].
- Mendocino County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Fair Oaks [Mendocino County].
- Sacramento County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Fair Oaks [Sacramento County].
- San Joaquin County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Fair Oaks [San Joaquin County].
- San Luis Obispo County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Fair Oaks [San Luis Obispo County].
- San Mateo County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Fair Oaks [San Mateo County].
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Cook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Fair Oaks [Cook County].
- DuPage 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 Illinois community of Fair Oaks [DuPage County].
- Kane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Fair Oaks [Kane County].
- Indiana
- Jasper County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Fair Oaks [Jasper County].
- Missouri
- Bates County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Fair Oaks [Bates County].
- New York
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fair Oaks [Orange County].
- Ohio
- Clermont County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Fair Oaks [Clermont County].
- Muskingum County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Fair Oaks [Muskingum County].
- Scioto County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Fair Oaks [Scioto County].
- Oklahoma
- Rogers County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Fair Oaks [Rogers County].
- Oregon
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Limestone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Fair Oaks [Limestone County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fair Oaks ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fair Oaks:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Fair Oaks - Services available: had a Post Office, Express Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Accomack 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 Accomack County.
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 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 Fair Oaks 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. |