Welcome to Orbit ...
Orbit is located in Isle of Wight County<1>.
While we don't have a date for the founding of Orbit, you might consider that their post office opened in 1888.
Time Zone: Orbit lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time
Area Codes for Orbit: 757 & 948<2>
Adding Orbit to Our Gazetteer ...
We originally found mention of Orbit in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.
From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Orbit was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
From that list, the Orbit post office opened in 1888.
We also found Orbit in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).
For more details, see References and Mentions for Orbit.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If you're interested in how the shape of Virginia's counties, including Isle of Wight, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <2> | When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 757 code has been Overlayed with the 948 area code. New phone numbers in the Orbit area will be assigned with one of these codes: 757 or 948. As a result, placing a call in the Orbit area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number). |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at:
https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |