Do you know of Letter Gap ???

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

Our sources for Letter Gap (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 Letter Gap other than they indicate that Letter Gap would be found somewhere in Gilmer County, West Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1856 and closed  in 1992.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Letter Gap ...

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

The FIPS database contains an entry for Letter Gap.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 54/46540   (Place Name: Letter Gap)

County: Gilmer     (FIPS State/County: 54/021)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Letter Gap) 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  Gilmer 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 Gilmer County.