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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1849 and closed  in 1961.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Passing ...

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

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.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Passing.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 51/60904   (Place Name: Passing)

County: Caroline     (FIPS State/County: 51/033)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Passing) 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  Caroline 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 Caroline County.

Alps 
ApplewoodIdeal
  
BaylorJerrell
Burkes Shop 
 Klocks Corner
Carmel ChurchKnopf
Clocks Corner 
Coleman MillMattaponi
CollinsMitchells Store
Concord Academy 
CroxtonNeedwood
  
DawnPage
 Point Eastern
EzraPoplar Inn
 Port Royal Crossroads
Farmers 
FileReturn
Flippo'sRuther Glen Corner
Fort Hill 
 South Milford
Guide 
Guiney'sWoodslane
Guninea 

Footnotes ...

<1>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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This page was last modified/updated: 10 Mar 2024