Do you know of Edwardsville ???

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

Our sources for Edwardsville (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 Edwardsville other than they indicate that Edwardsville would be found somewhere in Surry County, North Carolina.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1871 and closed in 1905.

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 Edwardsville ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Edwardsville.

Within North Carolina, the name Edwardsville is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Cleburne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Edwardsville [Cleburne County].
  - Coffee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Edwardsville [Coffee County].
  - Etowah County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Edwardsville [Etowah County].
- Delaware
  - Kent County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Edwardsville [Kent County].
- Georgia
  - Fulton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Edwardsville [Fulton County].
- Illinois
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Edwardsville [Madison County].
- Indiana
  - Floyd County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Edwardsville [Floyd County].
- Kansas
  - Wyandotte County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Edwardsville [Wyandotte County].
- New York
  - Saint Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Edwardsville [Saint Lawrence County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Edwardsville.
- Ohio
  - Clark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Edwardsville [Clark County].
  - Warren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Edwardsville [Warren County].
- Oklahoma
  - Edwardsville #
  - 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 Oklahoma community of Edwardsville.
- Pennsylvania
  - Luzerne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Edwardsville [Luzerne County].
- Virginia
  - Fauquier County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Edwardsville [Fauquier County].
  - Northumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Edwardsville [Northumberland County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Edwardsville ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Edwardsville - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

More Orphans in Surry 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 Surry 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Edwardsville 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/