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Do you know of Lick Run ???

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

Our sources for Lick Run (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 Lick Run other than they indicate that Lick Run would be found somewhere in Botetourt County, Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1884 and closed  in 1939.

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 Run ...

We found three communities that share the name Lick Run.

Within Virginia, the name Lick Run is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Ohio
      • Athens 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 Ohio community of Lick Run [Athens County].
      • Hamilton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lick Run [Hamilton County].
      • Tuscarawas County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lick Run [Tuscarawas County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lick Run ...

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

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 Lick Run - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Lick Run.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 51/45624   (Place Name: Lick Run)

County: Botetourt     (FIPS State/County: 51/023)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Lick Run) 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  Botetourt 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 Botetourt County.

Air MountIndian Rock
Arch MillsIron Mound
  
Baldwin StationKyle
Blue Ridge Springs 
Brugh's MillLyle
BurkeLylevue
  
CaleraMile Siding
Catawba 
CitadelOld Hickory
Coling 
Compton BridgePurgatory
  
DaggersRoaring Run
 Rob
Eagle Mountain 
 Silent Dell
Fringer 
 Tinker's Knob
Gala Water 
Garland OrchardsWaskey's Mills
  
HaymakerZion's Hill
  

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Lick Run 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/









 

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