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Do you know of Gunville ???

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

We found mention of Gunville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Henry 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 1856 and closed  in 1866.

Communities Also Named Gunville ...

We found one communities that share the name Gunville.

Within Virginia, the name Gunville is unique.

Beyond Virginia, there is another community also named Gunville in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • West Virginia
      • Mason County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Gunville [Mason County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Gunville ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Henry 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 Henry County.

AlumineLeatherwood Station
AlvahLoneoak
 Lucia
Barrow's Mill 
Burnt ChimneysMarrowbone
 Martin
Chatmoss - Laurel ParkMartinsville
CherokeeMayo
ComoModoc
 Moore's Mill
DillonMountain Valley
DixvilleMullinsville
Dyers Store 
 Pruntys
Edgewood 
EstoRegulus
 Rough And Ready Mills
Fry 
 Self
Gaynor HeightsStanley
GreystoneStanly
  
HardieTaylorsburg
HopperTraylorsville
  
IronsideWallers
 Wellsville
Lackey 

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/









 

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