Do you know of Piedmont ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Piedmont. 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 Piedmont.
We found mention of Piedmont as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Rappahannock County, Virginia.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1911 and closed in 1911.
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 Piedmont ...
We found 35 communities that share the name Piedmont.
There are three communities within Virginia that are also named Piedmont.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 32 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 32 communities, 33 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Augusta County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Piedmont [Augusta County].
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Piedmont [Montgomery County].
- Nelson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Piedmont [Nelson County].
- Augusta County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arizona
- Yavapai County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Piedmont [Yavapai County].
- Arkansas
- Pulaski County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Piedmont [Pulaski County].
- California
- Alameda County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Piedmont [Alameda County].
- Colorado
- Las Animas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Piedmont [Las Animas County].
- Ouray County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Piedmont [Ouray County].
- Florida
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Piedmont [Orange County].
- Georgia
- Jasper County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Piedmont [Jasper County].
- Lamar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Piedmont [Lamar County].
- Pike County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Piedmont [Pike County].
- Kansas
- Greenwood County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Piedmont [Greenwood County].
- Kentucky
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Piedmont [Wayne County].
- Montana
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Piedmont [Jefferson County].
- North Carolina
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Piedmont.
- Ohio
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Piedmont [Harrison County].
- Oklahoma
- Canadian County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Piedmont [Canadian County].
- Oregon
- Multnomah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Piedmont [Multnomah County].
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Piedmont.
- South Carolina
- Anderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Piedmont [Anderson County].
- South Dakota
- Meade County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Piedmont [Meade County].
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Washington
- Clallam County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Piedmont [Clallam County].
- West Virginia
- Wyoming
- Uinta County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Piedmont [Uinta County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Piedmont ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Piedmont:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
The FIPS database contains an entry for Piedmont.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 51/92424 (Place Name: Piedmont (Magisterial District))
County: Rappahannock (FIPS State/County: 51/157)
Class: Z1
More Orphans in Rappahannock County ...
Can you help?
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 Rappahannock County.
| Ben Venue | Hughes River |
| Black Rock | |
| Lottie | |
| Cloud | |
| Sandy |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Piedmont could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |