Do you know of Helms ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1830 and closed  in 1906.

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 Helms ...

We found one communities that share the name Helms.

Within Virginia, the name Helms is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Texas
    • Colorado County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Helms [Colorado County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Helms ...

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

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Helms - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station

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

More Orphans in  Franklin 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 Franklin County.