Do you know of Paint Lick ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Paint Lick. 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 Paint Lick.
Our sources for Paint Lick (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Paint Lick other than they indicate that Paint Lick would be found somewhere in Tazewell County, Virginia.
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 Paint Lick ...
We found one communities that share the name Paint Lick.
Within Virginia, the name Paint Lick is unique.
Beyond Virginia, there is another community also named Paint Lick in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Kentucky
- Garrard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Paint Lick [Garrard County].
- Kentucky
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Paint Lick ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Paint Lick:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Paint Lick - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
The FIPS database contains an entry for Paint Lick.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 51/60312 (Place Name: Paint Lick)
County: Tazewell (FIPS State/County: 51/185)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Paint Lick) 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 Tazewell 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 Tazewell County.