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Do you know of Goblintown ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1832 and closed  in 1904.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Goblintown ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Goblintown.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 51/31648   (Place Name: Goblintown)

County: Patrick     (FIPS State/County: 51/141)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Goblintown) 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  Patrick 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 Patrick County.

ArratLone Cedar
Avo 
 Mayberry
BallardMayo River
BatemanMayoning
Bell Spur 
BrothersOsage
  
CasselPatrick Springs Station
ColesvillePenns Store
ConsentPinnacle
CruisePuckett
  
Dan RiverRangeeley
 Rorrer
ElijahRussell Creek
  
FlemSambo
Friends MissionShuff
 Starkey
Hartville 
HaygoodTarkiln
The HollowTim
HowellTobax
HunterTuggle's Gap
  
Johnson CreekUnion Furnace
Johnson's Creek 
 Varallo
KolaVerano
  

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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