Do you know of Poplar Hill ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Poplar Hill. 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 Poplar Hill.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Poplar Hill, so we are uncertain whether Poplar Hill is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Poplar Hill would be found somewhere in Fairfax 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 Poplar Hill ...
We found fourteen communities that share the name Poplar Hill.
There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Poplar Hill.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Giles County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Poplar Hill [Giles County].
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
- Dodge County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Poplar Hill [Dodge County].
- Telfair 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 Poplar Hill [Telfair County].
- Kansas
- Dickinson 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 Kansas community of Poplar Hill [Dickinson County].
- Kentucky
- Casey 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 Kentucky community of Poplar Hill [Casey County].
- Maryland
- Prince George's County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Poplar Hill [Prince George's County].
- Talbot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Poplar Hill [Talbot County].
- North Carolina
- Anson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Poplar Hill [Anson County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Poplar Hill.
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Poplar Hill.
- South Carolina
- Horry County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Poplar Hill [Horry County].
- Williamsburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Poplar Hill [Williamsburg County].
- Tennessee
- Giles County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Poplar Hill [Giles County].
- McMinn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Poplar Hill [McMinn County].
More Orphans in Fairfax 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 Fairfax County.
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Poplar Hill 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. |