Do you know of Sydney ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1894 and closed  in 1904.

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 Sydney ...

We found five communities that share the name Sydney.

Within Virginia, the name Sydney is unique.

Beyond Virginia, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, three are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Florida
    • Hillsborough County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Sydney [Hillsborough County].
  • Kentucky
    • Pike County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Sydney [Pike County].
  • Manitoba
    • Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Sydney.
  • North Dakota
    • Stutsman County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Sydney [Stutsman County].
  • Nova Scotia
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Sydney.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sydney ...

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

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  Montgomery 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 Montgomery County.