Do you know of Rokeby ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Rokeby. 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 Rokeby.

Our sources for Rokeby (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 Rokeby other than they indicate that Rokeby would be found somewhere in King George County, Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1910 and closed  in 1945.

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 Rokeby ...

We found three communities that share the name Rokeby.

Within Virginia, the name Rokeby is unique.

Beyond Virginia, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these three communities, one is located in the United States and the other two communities are located in  Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Nebraska
    • Lancaster County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Rokeby [Lancaster County].
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Rokeby.
  • Saskatchewan
    • Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Rokeby.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rokeby ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  King George 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 King George County.