Do you know of Maxwelton ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1894 and closed  in 1922.

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 Maxwelton ...

We found four communities that share the name Maxwelton.

Within Virginia, the name Maxwelton is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Georgia
    • Clayton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Maxwelton [Clayton County].
  • Maryland
    • Charles County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Maxwelton [Charles County].
  • Washington
    • Island County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Maxwelton [Island County].
  • West Virginia
    • Greenbrier County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Maxwelton [Greenbrier County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Maxwelton ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Halifax 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 Halifax County.