Do you know of Elijah ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1886 and closed  in 1904.

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 Elijah ...

We found three communities that share the name Elijah.

Within Virginia, the name Elijah is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Missouri
    • Ozark County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Elijah [Ozark County].
  • Pennsylvania
    • McKean County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Elijah [McKean County].
  • Tennessee
    • White County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Elijah [White County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Elijah ...

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

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 Elijah - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

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.