Do you know of La Grange ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about La Grange. 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 La Grange.
Our sources for La Grange (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 La Grange other than they indicate that La Grange would be found somewhere in King George County, Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1874 and closed in 1893.
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 La Grange ...
We found twenty communities that share the name La Grange.
There is one other community in Virginia which is also named La Grange.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Colbert County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of La Grange [Colbert County].
- California
- Stanislaus County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of La Grange [Stanislaus County].
- Florida
- Brevard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of La Grange [Brevard County].
- Illinois
- Kansas
- Morris County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of La Grange [Morris County].
- Kentucky
- Oldham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of La Grange [Oldham County].
- Michigan
- Cass County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of La Grange [Cass County].
- Missouri
- Lewis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of La Grange [Lewis County].
- New York
- Dutchess 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 New York community of La Grange [Dutchess County].
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of La Grange [Orange County].
- Wyoming County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of La Grange [Wyoming County].
- North Carolina
- Lenoir County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of La Grange [Lenoir County].
- Ohio
- Tennessee
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of La Grange [Fayette County].
- Texas
- Wisconsin
- Walworth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of La Grange [Walworth County].
- Wyoming
- Goshen County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of La Grange [Goshen County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for La Grange ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about La Grange:
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 La Grange - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Appalachia & Piedmont
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)
More Orphans in King George 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 King George County.
| Chatterton | Index |
| Clifton | |
| Mathias Point | |
| Dido | Mountain View |
| Ducat | |
| Neill | |
| Ferrell | Nocam |
| Friendshipville | |
| Pluck | |
| Greenlaw's Wharf | |
| Grigsby | Rokeby |
| Rosita | |
| Hop Yard | |
| Hudibras | Vivian |
| Igo | Will |
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 La Grange 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/ |