Do you know of Claypool ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1898 and closed  in 1907.

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 Claypool ...

We found seven communities that share the name Claypool.

Within Virginia, the name Claypool is unique.

Beyond Virginia, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arizona
    • Gila County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Claypool [Gila County].
  • Illinois
    • Grundy County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Claypool [Grundy County].
  • Indiana
    • Kosciusko County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Claypool [Kosciusko County].
  • Kentucky
    • Warren County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Claypool [Warren County].
  • Ohio
    • Fairfield County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Claypool [Fairfield County].
  • West Virginia
    • Logan County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Claypool [Logan County].
    • Summers County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Claypool [Summers County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Claypool ...

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

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

Rand McNally Map of Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Nelson 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 Nelson County.