Do you know of Crafton ???

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

We found mention of Crafton as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Pittsylvania 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 1830 and closed in 1860.

Communities Also Named Crafton ...

We found five communities that share the name Crafton.

There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Crafton.

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

Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Fluvanna County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Crafton [Fluvanna County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - San Bernardino County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Crafton [San Bernardino County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Allegheny County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Crafton [Allegheny County].
- South Carolina
  - Edgefield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Crafton [Edgefield County].
- Texas
  - Wise County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Crafton [Wise County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Crafton ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in Pittsylvania 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 Pittsylvania 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>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/