Do you know of Costa ???

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

We found mention of Costa as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Boone County, West Virginia.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1918.

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 Costa ...

We found one communities that share the name Costa.

Within West Virginia, the name Costa is unique.

Beyond West Virginia, there is another community also named Costa in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Alabama
    • Etowah County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Costa [Etowah County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Costa ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

The FIPS database contains an entry for Costa.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 54/18100   (Place Name: Costa (RR name Brushton))

County: Boone     (FIPS State/County: 54/005)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Costa) 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  Boone 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 Boone County.