Do you know of Shelburne ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1891 and closed  in 1892.

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 Shelburne ...

We found six communities that share the name Shelburne.

Within Virginia, the name Shelburne is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Indiana
    • Morgan County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Shelburne [Morgan County].
  • Massachusetts
    • Franklin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Shelburne [Franklin County].
  • New Hampshire
    • Coos County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Shelburne [Coos County].
  • Nova Scotia
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Shelburne.
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Shelburne.
  • Vermont
    • Chittenden County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Shelburne [Chittenden County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Shelburne ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Montgomery 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 Montgomery County.