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

Our source wasn't clear whether Fort Eustis was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Fort Eustis would be found somewhere in , Virginia.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fort Eustis ...

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

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Appalachia & Piedmont
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Fort Eustis.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 51/29088   (Place Name: Fort Eustis (U.S. Army))

County: Newport News (city)     (FIPS State/County: 51/700)

Class: M1

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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 .

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Chapel ParkNewmarket Square
 Newsome Park
Deer Park Grove 
 Parkview
East Hilton 
 Reservoir
Garden ShoresRivermont
Green Oaks 
 Sussex Hilton
Hilton Park 
Hudson TerraceWarwick Gardens
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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.