Do you know of Rutherford ???

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

We found mention of Rutherford as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Rockingham 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.

Communities Also Named Rutherford ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Rutherford.

There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Rutherford.

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

Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Fairfax County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Rutherford [Fairfax County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Russell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Rutherford [Russell County].
- Arizona
  - Yavapai County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Rutherford [Yavapai County].
- Arkansas
  - Independence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Rutherford [Independence County].
- California
  - Napa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Rutherford [Napa County].
- Delaware
  - New Castle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Rutherford [New Castle County].
- Georgia
  - Oconee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Rutherford [Oconee County].
- Illinois
  - Champaign County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Rutherford [Champaign County].
- Kentucky
  - Harlan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Rutherford [Harlan County].
- Mississippi
  - Attala County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Rutherford [Attala County].
- New Jersey
  - Bergen 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 New Jersey community of Rutherford [Bergen County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Rutherford.
- Pennsylvania
  - Dauphin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rutherford [Dauphin County].
- Tennessee
  - Gibson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Rutherford [Gibson County].
- West Virginia
  - Ritchie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Rutherford [Ritchie County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rutherford ...

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

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Rutherford.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 51/69584 (Place Name: Rutherford)

County: Rockingham (FIPS State/County: 51/165)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Rutherford) 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 Rockingham 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 Rockingham County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Rutherford 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.