Do you know of Sand Hill ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Sand Hill. 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 Sand Hill.
Our sources for Sand Hill (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 Sand Hill other than they indicate that Sand Hill would be found somewhere in Richmond County, North Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1874 and closed in 1876.
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 Sand Hill ...
We found 42 communities that share the name Sand Hill.
There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Sand Hill.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another 41 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 41 communities, 38 are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
- Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Buncombe County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Sand Hill [Buncombe County].
- Buncombe County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Sand Hill [Lee County].
- Arkansas
- Hempstead County
- 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 Arkansas community of Sand Hill [Hempstead County].
- Prairie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Sand Hill [Prairie County].
- California
- Contra Costa County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Sand Hill [Contra Costa County].
- Delaware
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Sand Hill [Sussex County].
- Florida
- Walton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Sand Hill [Walton County].
- Georgia
- Brooks County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Sand Hill [Brooks County].
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Sand Hill [Carroll County].
- Glynn County
- 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 Georgia community of Sand Hill [Glynn County].
- Muscogee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Sand Hill [Muscogee County].
- Ware County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Sand Hill [Ware County].
- Kentucky
- Estill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Sand Hill [Estill County].
- Harlan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Sand Hill [Harlan County].
- Lewis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Sand Hill [Lewis County].
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Sand Hill [Warren County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Sand Hill.
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Saginaw County
- 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 Michigan community of Sand Hill [Saginaw County].
- Wayne County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Sand Hill [Wayne County].
- Mississippi
- Attala County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Sand Hill [Attala County].
- Copiah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Sand Hill [Copiah County].
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Sand Hill [Greene County].
- Jones County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Sand Hill [Jones County].
- Rankin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Sand Hill [Rankin County].
- Missouri
- Scotland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Sand Hill [Scotland County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Sand Hill.
- New York
- Erie County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Sand Hill [Erie County].
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Sand Hill [Montgomery County].
- Oswego County
- 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 New York community of Sand Hill [Oswego County].
- Otsego County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Sand Hill [Otsego County].
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- Lebanon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Sand Hill [Lebanon County].
- Westmoreland County
- 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 Pennsylvania community of Sand Hill [Westmoreland County].
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Sand Hill.
- Tennessee
- Texas
- West Virginia
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sand Hill ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Sand Hill:
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 Sand Hill - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned
More Orphans in Richmond 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 Richmond County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Sand Hill 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |