Dawn (Caroline County, VA)

Welcome to Dawn ...

Although we found mention of Dawn during our research, we have little information about it.<1> Given the context of how Dawn was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..

While we are confident that Dawn was located in Caroline County, we don't know its actual location within the county.

We've added Dawn to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Dawn - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Dawn, please Contact Us.

Time Zone: The area where we believe that Dawn might be (or was) located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

We believe that Dawn would be found within the (804) area code.

Communities Also Named Dawn ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 6 communities that are also named Dawn - they are located in Missouri, Ohio, Ontario (2), Tennessee and Texas.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Dawn.

Adding Dawn to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Dawn in the FIPS-55 file. For more information, see the Referenced FIPS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention that we've found for Dawn was the Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

We also found Dawn on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Virginia (1911).

For more details about the above, see References and Mentions for Dawn.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Caroline County: www.co.caroline.va.us/

The official website for State of Virginia: https://www.virginia.gov/

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went north past Dawn and then turned west". While Dawn could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Dawn as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.

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 Dawn 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.