Do you know of Mount Meridian ???

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

Our sources for Mount Meridian (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 Mount Meridian other than they indicate that Mount Meridian would be found somewhere in Augusta County, Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1826 and closed  in 1907.

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 Mount Meridian ...

We found one communities that share the name Mount Meridian.

Within Virginia, the name Mount Meridian is unique.

Beyond Virginia, there is another community also named Mount Meridian in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Indiana
    • Putnam County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Mount Meridian [Putnam County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mount Meridian ...

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

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 Mount Meridian - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

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 Mount Meridian.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 51/54040   (Place Name: Mount Meridian)

County: Augusta     (FIPS State/County: 51/015)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Mount Meridian) 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  Augusta 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 Augusta County.