Do you know of Maness ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1884 and closed  in 1904.

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 Maness ...

We found one communities that share the name Maness.

There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Maness.

Beyond Virginia.

• Communities Located In Virginia ...
  • Lee County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Maness [Lee County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Maness ...

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

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 Maness - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

More Orphans in  Scott 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 Scott County.