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Do you know of Estillville ???

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

We found mention of Estillville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Scott 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 1825 and closed  in 1890.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Estillville ...

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

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

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

Estillville was listed as Estillville Courthouse.

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

Estillville was listed as Estillville Courthouse.

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

Estillville was listed as Estillville Courthouse.

More Orphans in  Scott 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 Scott County.

AlbertLeaf
AlleyLomax
AyersLucile
  
Block HouseMabe
BloomerMan
BoozyManess
BynoMann Ford
 Melvin
CameronMiller Yard
CedarcliffMoccasin Gap
Clinch RiverMorgan
Cornsville 
CorusvillePannell
 Pennsand
Daniel BoonePeters
 Peterson Chapel
Early GrovePurchase
Ela 
 Quillinsville
Fido 
FlagpondRio Frio
FlatwoodsRocky Point
 Rouss
GayleRussellville
  
Hale's MillSlant
HardwoodSpeers Ferry
HartsockSquare
HillStarnes
Hills StationStile
HiltonStock Creek
HodelStony Creek
Horton Summit 
Hortons SummitTeddy
  
Jennings MissionValley Creek
Johnson 
 Wayland
KaWelchburgh
 Whiteforge

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/