Do you know of South Orange ???

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

Our source wasn't clear whether South Orange was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that South Orange would be found somewhere in Orange County, Virginia.

Communities Also Named South Orange ...

We found one communities that share the name South Orange.

Within Virginia, the name South Orange is unique.

Beyond Virginia, there is another community also named South Orange in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- New Jersey
  - Essex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of South Orange [Essex County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for South Orange ...

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

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Appalachia & Piedmont
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for South Orange.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 51/74016 (Place Name: South Orange)

County: Orange (FIPS State/County: 51/137)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, South Orange) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Orange 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 Orange 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>	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.