Do you know of Oakville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Oakville. 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 Oakville.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Oakville, so we are uncertain whether Oakville 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 Oakville would be found somewhere in , 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 Oakville ...
We found 30 communities that share the name Oakville.
There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Oakville.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 29 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 29 communities, 27 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Appomattox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Oakville [Appomattox County].
- Appomattox County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- California
- Napa County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Oakville [Napa County].
- Connecticut
- Litchfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Oakville [Litchfield County].
- Georgia
- Terrell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Oakville [Terrell County].
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Delaware County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Oakville [Delaware County].
- Iowa
- Louisa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Oakville [Louisa County].
- Kentucky
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Oakville [Logan County].
- Louisiana
- Plaquemines Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Oakville [Plaquemines Parish].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Oakville.
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Oakville [Monroe County].
- Missouri
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Oakville.
- New Jersey
- Atlantic County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Oakville [Atlantic County].
- New York
- Suffolk County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Oakville [Suffolk County].
- North Carolina
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Oakville [Warren County].
- North Dakota
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Oakville.
- Oregon
- Linn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Oakville [Linn County].
- Pennsylvania
- Tennessee
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Oakville [Shelby County].
- Texas
- Live Oak County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Oakville [Live Oak County].
- Washington
- Grays Harbor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Oakville [Grays Harbor County].
- West Virginia
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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 .
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 Oakville 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 . 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. |