Do you know of Fort Hill ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fort Hill. 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 Fort Hill.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Fort Hill, so we are uncertain whether Fort Hill is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Fort Hill would be found somewhere in Henrico 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 Fort Hill ...
We found sixteen communities that share the name Fort Hill.
There are two communities within Virginia that are also named Fort Hill.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Caroline County
- Lynchburg City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Fort Hill [Lynchburg City].
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Connecticut
- Illinois
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Fort Hill [Lake County].
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- Plymouth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Fort Hill [Plymouth County].
- New York
- Genesee County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fort Hill [Genesee County].
- Ontario County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fort Hill [Ontario County].
- Suffolk County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fort Hill [Suffolk County].
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fort Hill [Wayne County].
- Oregon
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Fort Hill [Polk County].
- Pennsylvania
- Montgomery 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 Pennsylvania community of Fort Hill [Montgomery County].
- Somerset County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Fort Hill [Somerset County].
- Rhode Island
- Providence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Fort Hill [Providence County].
- South Carolina
- West Virginia
- Kanawha County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Fort Hill [Kanawha County].
More Orphans in Henrico 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 Henrico 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 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 Fort Hill 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. |