Do you know of Lewisville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lewisville. 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 Lewisville.<1>
We found mention of Lewisville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Brunswick 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 1813 and closed in 1866.
Communities Also Named Lewisville ...
We found 26 communities that share the name Lewisville.
There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Lewisville.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 25 communities, 25 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Clarke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Lewisville [Clarke County].
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Lafayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Lewisville [Lafayette County].
- Idaho
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Lewisville [Jefferson County].
- Indiana
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Lewisville [Henry County].
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Lewisville [Morgan County].
- Michigan
- Huron County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Lewisville [Huron County].
- Minnesota
- Watonwan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Lewisville [Watonwan County].
- Missouri
- Holt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Lewisville [Holt County].
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Lewisville [Shelby County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Lewisville.
- New Jersey
- Mercer County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Lewisville [Mercer County].
- North Carolina
- Forsyth County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Lewisville [Forsyth County].
- Ohio
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lewisville [Hancock County].
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lewisville [Jackson County].
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lewisville [Monroe County].
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lewisville [Washington County].
- Oklahoma
- Haskell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Lewisville [Haskell County].
- Oregon
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Lewisville [Polk County].
- Pennsylvania
- Chester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Lewisville [Chester County].
- Indiana County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Lewisville [Indiana County].
- Potter County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Lewisville [Potter County].
- South Carolina
- Chester County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Lewisville [Chester County].
- Horry County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Lewisville [Horry County].
- Texas
- Denton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lewisville [Denton County].
- Waller County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lewisville [Waller County].
- Washington
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Lewisville [Clark County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lewisville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lewisville:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Brunswick 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 Brunswick County.
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> | 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Lewisville 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. |
<4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at:
https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |