Do you know of Forestburg ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Forestburg. 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 Forestburg.
Our sources for Forestburg (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Forestburg other than they indicate that Forestburg would be found somewhere in Prince William County, Virginia.
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 Forestburg ...
We found five communities that share the name Forestburg.
Within Virginia, the name Forestburg is unique.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, four are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Forestburg.
- New York
- Sullivan County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Forestburg [Sullivan County].
- North Carolina
- Perquimans County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Forestburg [Perquimans County].
- South Dakota
- Sanborn County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Forestburg [Sanborn County].
- Texas
- Montague County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Forestburg [Montague County].
- Alberta
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Forestburg ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Forestburg:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Forestburg - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Prince William 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 Prince William County.