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Do you know of Langford ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Langford, so we are uncertain whether Langford 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 Langford would be found somewhere in Hanover 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 Langford ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Langford.

There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Langford.

Beyond Virginia, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, ten are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Virginia ...
    • Albemarle County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Langford [Albemarle County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Langford [Jefferson County].
    • British Columbia
      • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Langford.
    • Colorado
      • Boulder 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 Colorado community of Langford [Boulder County].
    • Kentucky
      • Rockcastle 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 Kentucky community of Langford [Rockcastle County].
    • Maryland
      • Kent County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Langford [Kent County].
    • Mississippi
      • Rankin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Langford [Rankin County].
    • New York
      • Erie County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Langford [Erie County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Langford.
    • South Dakota
      • Marshall County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Langford [Marshall County].
    • Utah
      • Salt Lake County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Langford [Salt Lake County].
      • Weber County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Langford [Weber County].

More Orphans in  Hanover 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 Hanover County.

Auburn Mills 
 Fanshaw
Bandana 
Battlefield FarmsGarnett
Beaver Dam Depot 
Borkey StoreKilby
Bothwell 
 Maddox
Chandler 
Cold HarborNegro Foot
Corneals StoreNewman's
  
DawsonOffley
Dentonsville 
 Steam Mill
Ellett 
EmmettsWickham
Etna 

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 Langford 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.









 

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