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Do you know of Spottsville ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1877 and closed  in 1912.

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 Spottsville ...

We found one communities that share the name Spottsville.

Within Virginia, the name Spottsville is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Kentucky
      • Henderson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Spottsville [Henderson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Spottsville ...

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

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Spottsville - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

More Orphans in  Surry 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 Surry County.

Alcott's MillsHog Island
Anchor 
 Otterdam
Bacon's Castle 
BaileysburghRaymond
BerrymanRiggins
 Ruffins
Cabin Point 
Claremont WharfSavidges
 Sykes
Hargrave 

Footnotes ...

<1>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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This page was last modified/updated: 10 Mar 2024