Do you know of Roberta ???

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

Our sources for Roberta (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Roberta other than they indicate that Roberta would be found somewhere in Franklin 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 Roberta ...

We found seven communities that share the name Roberta.

Within Virginia, the name Roberta is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Alabama
    • Shelby County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Roberta [Shelby County].
  • Colorado
    • Otero County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Roberta [Otero County].
  • Georgia
    • Crawford County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Roberta [Crawford County].
  • Kentucky
    • Meade County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Roberta [Meade County].
  • Nova Scotia
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Roberta.
  • Oklahoma
    • Bryan County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Roberta [Bryan County].
  • Tennessee
    • Scott County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Roberta [Scott County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Roberta ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Franklin 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 Franklin County.