Do you know of Barnesville ???

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

Our sources for Barnesville (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 Barnesville other than they indicate that Barnesville would be found somewhere in Charlotte County, Virginia.

Communities Also Named Barnesville ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Barnesville.

Within Virginia, the name Barnesville is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Barnesville [Marion County].
  - Tallapoosa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Barnesville [Tallapoosa County].
- Colorado
  - Weld County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Barnesville [Weld County].
- Connecticut
  - New Haven County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Barnesville [New Haven County].
- Georgia
  - Lamar County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Barnesville [Lamar County].
  - Pike 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 Georgia community of Barnesville [Pike County].
- Kansas
  - Bourbon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Barnesville [Bourbon County].
- Maryland
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Barnesville [Montgomery County].
- Minnesota
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Barnesville [Clay County].
- Mississippi
  - DeSoto County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Barnesville [DeSoto County].
- Missouri
  - Clinton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Barnesville [Clinton County].
  - Macon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Barnesville [Macon County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Barnesville.
- North Carolina
  - Robeson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Barnesville [Robeson County].
- Ohio
  - Belmont County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Barnesville [Belmont County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Schuylkill County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Barnesville [Schuylkill County].
- Tennessee
  - Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Barnesville [Lawrence County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Barnesville ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Barnesville - 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 Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Barnesville.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 51/04600 (Place Name: Barnesville)

County: Charlotte (FIPS State/County: 51/037)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Barnesville) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Charlotte 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 Charlotte County.

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 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 Barnesville 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.