Do you know of Dan River ???

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

Our sources for Dan River (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 Dan River other than they indicate that Dan River would be found somewhere in Patrick County, Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1842 and closed  in 1846.

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 Dan River ...

We found two communities that share the name Dan River.

There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Dan River.

Beyond Virginia, there is another community also named Dan River in the United States.

• Communities Located In Virginia ...
  • Pittsylvania County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Dan River [Pittsylvania County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • North Carolina
    • Rockingham County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Dan River [Rockingham County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dan River ...

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

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Dan River - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned

More Orphans in  Patrick 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 Patrick County.