Do you know of Rio Vista ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Rio Vista. 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 Rio Vista.
Our sources for Rio Vista (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 Rio Vista other than they indicate that Rio Vista would be found somewhere in Henrico County, Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1886 and closed in 1922.
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 Rio Vista ...
We found fourteen communities that share the name Rio Vista.
There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Rio Vista.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Richmond County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Rio Vista [Richmond County].
- Richmond County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- White County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Rio Vista [White County].
- California
- Solano County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Rio Vista [Solano County].
- Florida
- Pinellas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Rio Vista [Pinellas County].
- Georgia
- Kentucky
- Harlan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Rio Vista [Harlan County].
- Maryland
- Talbot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Rio Vista [Talbot County].
- Massachusetts
- Middlesex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Rio Vista [Middlesex County].
- Nevada
- Esmeralda 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 Nevada community of Rio Vista [Esmeralda County].
- Lyon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Rio Vista [Lyon County].
- Tennessee
- Blount County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Rio Vista [Blount County].
- Texas
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Rio Vista [Johnson County].
- Utah
- Weber County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Rio Vista [Weber County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rio Vista ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Rio Vista:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Rio Vista - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Henrico 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 Henrico 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 Rio Vista 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/ |