Do you know of Vineland ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1885 and closed in 1929.

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 Vineland ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Vineland.

Within North Carolina, the name Vineland is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Marengo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Vineland [Marengo County].
- Arkansas
  - Franklin 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 Vineland [Franklin County].
- California
  - Los Angeles 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 California community of Vineland [Los Angeles County].
- Colorado
  - Pueblo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Vineland [Pueblo County].
- Florida
  - Orange County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Vineland [Orange County].
- Michigan
  - Berrien County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Vineland [Berrien County].
- Minnesota
  - Mille Lacs County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Vineland [Mille Lacs County].
- Missouri
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Vineland [Jefferson County].
- New Jersey
  - Cumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Vineland [Cumberland County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Vineland.
- Texas
  - Collin 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 Texas community of Vineland [Collin County].
- Virginia
  - Brunswick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Vineland [Brunswick County].
- Washington
  - Asotin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Vineland [Asotin County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Vineland ...

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

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

More Orphans in Columbus 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 Columbus 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 Vineland 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/