Do you know of Hunter ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hunter. 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 Hunter.
Our sources for Hunter (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 Hunter other than they indicate that Hunter would be found somewhere in Patrick County, Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1902.
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 Hunter ...
We found 31 communities that share the name Hunter.
There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Hunter.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 30 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Fairfax County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Hunter [Fairfax County].
- Fairfax County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Colbert County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Hunter [Colbert County].
- Dallas County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Hunter [Dallas County].
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Hunter [Montgomery County].
- Alaska
- Arkansas
- Woodruff County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Hunter [Woodruff County].
- Florida
- Putnam County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Hunter [Putnam County].
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Boone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Hunter [Boone County].
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Mitchell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Hunter [Mitchell County].
- Kentucky
- Floyd County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Hunter [Floyd County].
- Louisiana
- De Soto Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Hunter [De Soto Parish].
- Missouri
- Carter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Hunter [Carter County].
- Nevada
- New Mexico
- Rio Arriba County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Hunter [Rio Arriba County].
- New York
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Hunter [Greene County].
- North Dakota
- Cass County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Hunter [Cass County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Garfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Hunter [Garfield County].
- Pennsylvania
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Comal County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Hunter [Comal County].
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Hunter [Salt Lake County].
- West Virginia
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hunter ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hunter:
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 Hunter - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Patrick 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 Patrick County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Hunter could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |