Do you know of Red Oak Grove ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Red Oak Grove. 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 Red Oak Grove.

Our sources for Red Oak Grove (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 Red Oak Grove other than they indicate that Red Oak Grove would be found somewhere in Charlotte County, Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1839 and closed  in 1894.

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 Red Oak Grove ...

We found one communities that share the name Red Oak Grove.

Within Virginia, the name Red Oak Grove is unique.

Beyond Virginia, there is another community also named Red Oak Grove in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • New Jersey
    • Ocean County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Red Oak Grove [Ocean County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Red Oak Grove ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Red Oak Grove - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

Rand McNally Map of Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Charlotte 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 Charlotte County.