Do you know of Seven Islands ???

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

Our sources for Seven Islands (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 Seven Islands other than they indicate that Seven Islands would be found somewhere in Fluvanna County, Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1842 and closed  in 1938.

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 Seven Islands ...

We found two communities that share the name Seven Islands.

Within Virginia, the name Seven Islands is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Quebec
    • Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Seven Islands.
  • Tennessee
    • Knox County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Seven Islands [Knox County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Seven Islands ...

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

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 Seven Islands - 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.

More Orphans in  Fluvanna 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 Fluvanna County.