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

Our sources for Lantz Mills (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 Lantz Mills other than they indicate that Lantz Mills would be found somewhere in Shenandoah County, Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1856 and closed  in 1960.

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 Lantz Mills ...

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

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Lantz Mills - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Lantz Mills.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 51/44056   (Place Name: Lantz Mills)

County: Shenandoah     (FIPS State/County: 51/171)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Lantz Mills) 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  Shenandoah County ...

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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 Shenandoah County.

Barb 
BedfordHat
Belgrade 
Bellew'sJadwyn
Bordon 
BowmansLaurel Hill
 Liberty Furnace
Cabin Hill 
Capon Road DepotMoores Store
Capon RoadMundellsville
Cedar Creek Wayside 
Coal MinePoco
Cross RoadsPomona
  
EddenburghRocky Glen
Edith 
ElginSaint Davids Church
 Shenandoah Alum Springs
Fishers Hill 
 Topnot
Getz 
GridleyWine

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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