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So far, we found very little information about Pond Gap. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Pond Gap to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Pond Gap, please Contact Us.

Pond Gap would have been located within present day Augusta County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Pond Gap, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1855.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Pond Gap is 1,690 feet [515 m] above sea level.<3>.

Time Zone: The area where Pond Gap was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Codes where Pond Gap was located: 540 & 826<4>

Communities Also Named Pond Gap ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Pond Gap - it's located in West Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Pond Gap.

Communities near Pond Gap ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Pond Gap.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Pond Gap. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Pond Gap.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Pond Gap. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Pond Gap.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Pond Gap. See our Newspapers Page for Pond Gap.

Adding Pond Gap to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Pond Gap in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Pond Gap was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7>

X2X - From that list, the Pond Gap post office opened in 1855.

We also found Pond Gap in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Pond Gap.

The official website for Augusta County: www.co.augusta.va.us/

The official website for State of Virginia: https://www.virginia.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Pond Gap, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Virginia's counties, including Augusta, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Pond Gap - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>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 540 code has been Overlayed with the 826 area code. New phone numbers in the Pond Gap area will be assigned with one of these codes: 540 or 826. As a result, placing a call in the Pond Gap area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<7>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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