Do you know of Silver Leaf ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Silver Leaf. 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 Silver Leaf.<1>
Our sources for Silver Leaf (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 Silver Leaf other than they indicate that Silver Leaf would be found somewhere in Floyd County, Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1879 and closed in 1893.
Communities Also Named Silver Leaf ...
We found two communities that share the name Silver Leaf.
There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Silver Leaf.
Beyond Virginia, there is another community also named Silver Leaf in the United States.
- Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Silver Leaf [Montgomery County].
- Montgomery County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- South Carolina
- Greenville County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Silver Leaf [Greenville County].
- South Carolina
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Silver Leaf ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Silver Leaf:
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 Silver Leaf - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Floyd 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 Floyd County.
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/ |