Do you know of Vesta ???

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

We found mention of Vesta as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Shackelford County, Texas.

Communities Also Named Vesta ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Vesta.

There is one other community in Texas which is also named Vesta.

Beyond Texas, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, eleven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Located In Texas ...
- Sabine County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Vesta [Sabine County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Vesta [Franklin County].
- Georgia
  - Oglethorpe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Vesta [Oglethorpe County].
- Indiana
  - Clark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Vesta [Clark County].
- Kansas
  - Clark County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Vesta [Clark County].
- Minnesota
  - Redwood County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Vesta [Redwood County].
- Nebraska
  - Johnson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Vesta [Johnson County].
- North Dakota
  - Walsh County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Vesta [Walsh County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Vesta.
- Tennessee
  - Wilson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Vesta [Wilson County].
- Virginia
  - Patrick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Vesta [Patrick County].
- Washington
  - Grays Harbor County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Vesta [Grays Harbor County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Vesta ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Shackelford 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 Shackelford County.

Rising Sun

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 Vesta 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.