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Do you know of Rural Home ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Rural Home. 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 Rural Home.<1>

Our sources for Rural Home (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 Rural Home other than they indicate that Rural Home would be found somewhere in Grayson County, Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1879 and closed  in 1916.

Communities Also Named Rural Home ...

We found one communities that share the name Rural Home.

Within Virginia, the name Rural Home is unique.

Beyond Virginia, there is another community also named Rural Home in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Missouri
      • Cass County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Rural Home [Cass County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rural Home ...

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

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 Rural Home - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

More Orphans in  Grayson 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 Grayson County.

AmoritaKite
Ancella 
ArbutusLasca
 Long's Gap
BrushLundy
  
CabinMajor
ClitoMeadowcreek
Cornetts Store 
Coxs ChapelNuckollsville
Creola 
 Old Town
Dalhart 
DellPark
 Potato Creek
EdgewaterPotato
  
FairySaddle
FinleySells
 Shamrock
GreekShoal
 Summerfield
Higgins 
 Tug
Kindrick 
KiplingUrsus

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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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