Do you know of Elmington ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1869 and closed  in 1958.

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 Elmington ...

We found one communities that share the name Elmington.

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

Beyond Virginia.

• Communities Located In Virginia ...
  • Gloucester County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Elmington [Gloucester County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Elmington ...

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

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 Elmington - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Elmington.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 51/25584   (Place Name: Elmington)

County: Nelson     (FIPS State/County: 51/125)

Class: X3

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.