Do you know of Chapel Hill ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Chapel 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 Chapel Hill.<1>
We found mention of Chapel Hill as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Fluvanna 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.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1855 and closed in 1874.
Communities Also Named Chapel Hill ...
We found 40 communities that share the name Chapel Hill.
There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Chapel Hill.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 39 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 39 communities, 39 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Alexandria City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Chapel Hill [Alexandria City].
- Alexandria City
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Chambers County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Chapel Hill [Chambers County].
- Choctaw County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Chapel Hill [Choctaw County].
- Covington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Chapel Hill [Covington County].
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Chapel Hill [Jefferson County].
- Walker County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Chapel Hill [Walker County].
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Chapel Hill [Washington County].
- Arkansas
- Howard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Chapel Hill [Howard County].
- Sevier County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Chapel Hill [Sevier County].
- Connecticut
- New London County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Chapel Hill [New London County].
- Delaware
- New Castle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Chapel Hill [New Castle County].
- Florida
- Palm Beach County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Chapel Hill [Palm Beach County].
- Georgia
- DeKalb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Chapel Hill [DeKalb County].
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Chapel Hill [Douglas County].
- Floyd County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Chapel Hill [Floyd County].
- Twiggs County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Chapel Hill [Twiggs County].
- Illinois
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Chapel Hill [Lake County].
- Indiana
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Chapel Hill [Marion County].
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Chapel Hill [Monroe County].
- Iowa
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Chapel Hill [Scott County].
- Kentucky
- Allen County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Chapel Hill [Allen County].
- Maryland
- Baltimore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Chapel Hill [Baltimore County].
- Calvert County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Chapel Hill [Calvert County].
- Prince George's County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Chapel Hill [Prince George's County].
- Mississippi
- Attala County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Chapel Hill [Attala County].
- Hinds County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Chapel Hill [Hinds County].
- Missouri
- Lafayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Chapel Hill [Lafayette County].
- New Jersey
- Monmouth County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Chapel Hill [Monmouth County].
- North Carolina
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Chapel Hill [Madison County].
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Chapel Hill [Orange County].
- Ohio
- Perry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Chapel Hill [Perry County].
- Pennsylvania
- Montgomery County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Chapel Hill [Montgomery County].
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Chapel Hill.
- South Carolina
- Berkeley County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Chapel Hill [Berkeley County].
- Tennessee
- Henderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Chapel Hill [Henderson County].
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Chapel Hill [Marshall County].
- Maury County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Chapel Hill [Maury County].
- Texas
- Smith County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Chapel Hill [Smith County].
- Washington County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Chapel Hill [Washington County].
- Utah
- Davis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Chapel Hill [Davis County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Chapel Hill ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Chapel Hill:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Fluvanna 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 Fluvanna County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Chapel 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. |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |