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Do you know of Candlewax ???

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

We found mention of Candlewax as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Russell County, Virginia.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1929 and closed  in 1937.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Candlewax ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

The FIPS database contains an entry for Candlewax.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 51/12616   (Place Name: Candlewax)

County: Russell     (FIPS State/County: 51/167)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Candlewax) 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  Russell 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 Russell County.

Bascomb ChurchHomer
BluegrassHonaker Junction
Brewster 
BrumfieldMidway
  
ClideNew Garden
 Nunley
Dante Scale 
DrillPound
Dump CreekPumpkin Center
  
East HonakerQuarry
Elway 
 Rock House
Fink 
FinneySay
 Siemp
Gardner'sStallard
Gibsonville 
 Virginia City

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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