Do you know of Sutton ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Sutton. 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 Sutton.
Our sources for Sutton (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 Sutton other than they indicate that Sutton would be found somewhere in Buckingham County, Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1899 and closed in 1906.
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 Sutton ...
We found 31 communities that share the name Sutton.
Within Virginia, the name Sutton is unique.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 31 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 31 communities, 29 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alaska
- Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Sutton.
- Arkansas
- Nevada County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Sutton [Nevada County].
- Florida
- Illinois
- Cook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Sutton [Cook County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Worcester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Sutton [Worcester County].
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Sutton [Clay County].
- New Hampshire
- Merrimack County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Sutton [Merrimack County].
- New Jersey
- Hunterdon County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Sutton [Hunterdon County].
- North Carolina
- Duplin County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Sutton [Duplin County].
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Sutton [Franklin County].
- North Dakota
- Griggs County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Sutton [Griggs County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Sutton.
- Pennsylvania
- Clarion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Sutton [Clarion County].
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Sutton.
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Sutton [Salt Lake County].
- Vermont
- Caledonia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Sutton [Caledonia County].
- Washington
- Whitman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Sutton [Whitman County].
- West Virginia
- Braxton County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Sutton [Braxton County].
- Alaska
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sutton ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Sutton:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Buckingham 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 Buckingham County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Sutton could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |