Do you know of Ruskin ???

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

Our sources for Ruskin (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 Ruskin other than they indicate that Ruskin would be found somewhere in Tazewell County, Virginia.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1900 and closed  in 1907.

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 Ruskin ...

We found nine communities that share the name Ruskin.

Within Virginia, the name Ruskin is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • British Columbia
    • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Ruskin.
  • Florida
    • Hillsborough County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Ruskin [Hillsborough County].
  • Georgia
    • Ware County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ruskin [Ware County].
  • Minnesota
    • Rice County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Ruskin [Rice County].
  • Missouri
    • Jackson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Ruskin [Jackson County].
  • Nebraska
    • Nuckolls County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Ruskin [Nuckolls County].
  • North Carolina
    • Bladen County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ruskin [Bladen County].
  • Ohio
    • Wyandot County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ruskin [Wyandot County].
  • Tennessee
    • Dickson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ruskin [Dickson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ruskin ...

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

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  Tazewell 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 Tazewell County.