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Do you know of Osage ???

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

Our sources for Osage (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 Osage other than they indicate that Osage would be found somewhere in Patrick County, Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1888 and closed  in 1905.

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 Osage ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Osage.

Within Virginia, the name Osage is unique.

Beyond Virginia, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Carroll County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Osage [Carroll County].
    • Illinois
      • Franklin 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 Illinois community of Osage [Franklin County].
    • Iowa
      • Mitchell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Osage [Mitchell County].
    • Kansas
      • Miami 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 Kansas community of Osage [Miami County].
    • Minnesota
      • Becker County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Osage [Becker County].
    • Missouri
      • Cole 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 Missouri community of Osage [Cole County].
    • New Jersey
      • Camden County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Osage [Camden County].
    • Ohio
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Osage [Jefferson County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Osage County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Osage [Osage County].
    • Saskatchewan
      • Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Osage.
    • Tennessee
      • Henry County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Osage [Henry County].
    • Texas
      • Colorado County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Osage [Colorado County].
      • Coryell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Osage [Coryell County].
    • West Virginia
      • Monongalia County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Osage [Monongalia County].
    • Wyoming
      • Weston County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Osage [Weston County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Osage ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Patrick 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 Patrick County.

ArratKola
Avo 
 Lone Cedar
Ballard 
BatemanMayberry
Bell SpurMayo River
BrothersMayoning
  
CasselPatrick Springs Station
ColesvillePenns Store
ConsentPinnacle
CruisePuckett
  
Dan RiverRangeeley
 Rorrer
ElijahRussell Creek
  
FlemSambo
Friends MissionShuff
 Starkey
Goblintown 
 Tarkiln
HartvilleTim
HaygoodTobax
The HollowTuggle's Gap
Howell 
HunterUnion Furnace
  
Johnson CreekVarallo
Johnson's CreekVerano
  

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Osage 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/









 

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