Do you know of Head Waters ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Head Waters. 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 Head Waters.<1>
Our sources for Head Waters (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 Head Waters other than they indicate that Head Waters would be found somewhere in Highland County, Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1843.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Head Waters ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Head Waters:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Head Waters - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
The FIPS database contains an entry for Head Waters.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 51/36136 (Place Name: Head Waters)
County: Highland (FIPS State/County: 51/091)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Head Waters) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Highland 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 Highland County.
| Crabbottom | Spruce Hill |
| Strait Creek | |
| Flood | |
| Valley Center | |
| Hull | Vilna |
| Pinckney | Wier |
| Poverty | Wilsonville |
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> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |