Do you know of Nealsville ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Nealsville. 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 Nealsville.<1>

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1870 and closed  in 1945.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Nealsville ...

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in  McDowell 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 McDowell County.