Do you know of Houston ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Houston. 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 Houston.
Our sources for Houston (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 Houston other than they indicate that Houston would be found somewhere in Halifax County, Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 and closed in 1920.
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 Houston ...
We found 28 communities that share the name Houston.
Within Virginia, the name Houston is unique.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 28 communities, 27 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Winston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Houston [Winston County].
- Alaska
- Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Houston.
- Arkansas
- Perry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Houston [Perry County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Houston.
- California
- Colorado
- Weld County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Houston [Weld County].
- Delaware
- Florida
- Suwannee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Houston [Suwannee County].
- Georgia
- Heard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Houston [Heard County].
- Idaho
- Custer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Houston [Custer County].
- Illinois
- Randolph County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Houston [Randolph County].
- Indiana
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Houston [Jackson County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Breathitt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Houston [Breathitt County].
- Louisiana
- Allen Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Houston [Allen Parish].
- Minnesota
- Houston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Houston [Houston County].
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Texas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Houston [Texas County].
- Nebraska
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Houston [York County].
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Houston [Shelby County].
- Pennsylvania
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Houston [Washington County].
- Tennessee
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Houston [Wayne County].
- Texas
- Harris County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Houston [Harris County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Houston ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Houston:
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 Houston - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station
Rand McNally Map of Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Halifax 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 Halifax 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 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 Houston 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/ |