Do you know of Lick Fork ???

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

We found mention of Lick Fork as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Dickenson 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.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1913 and closed  in 1916.

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 Lick Fork ...

We found four communities that share the name Lick Fork.

Within Virginia, the name Lick Fork is unique.

Beyond Virginia, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Kentucky
    • Johnson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Lick Fork [Johnson County].
    • Letcher County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Lick Fork [Letcher County].
    • Rowan County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Lick Fork [Rowan County].
  • West Virginia
    • Fayette County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Lick Fork [Fayette County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lick Fork ...

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

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Lick Fork.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 51/45608   (Place Name: Lick Fork)

County: Dickenson     (FIPS State/County: 51/051)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Lick Fork) 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  Dickenson 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 Dickenson County.