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Do you know of Fink ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1904 and closed  in 1919.

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 Fink ...

We found three communities that share the name Fink.

Within Virginia, the name Fink is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Colorado
      • Fremont County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Fink [Fremont County].
    • Texas
      • Grayson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Fink [Grayson County].
    • West Virginia
      • Lewis County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Fink [Lewis County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fink ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Russell 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 Russell County.

Bascomb ChurchHomer
BluegrassHonaker Junction
Brewster 
BrumfieldMidway
  
CandlewaxNew Garden
ClideNunley
  
Dante ScalePound
DrillPumpkin Center
Dump Creek 
 Quarry
East Honaker 
ElwayRock House
  
FinneySay
 Siemp
Gardner'sStallard
Gibsonville 
 Virginia City

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024