Do you know of Tip Top ???

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

Our sources for Tip Top (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Tip Top other than they indicate that Tip Top would be found somewhere in Tazewell County, Virginia.

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 Tip Top ...

We found nine communities that share the name Tip Top.

Within Virginia, the name Tip Top is unique.

Beyond Virginia, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
  - Yavapai County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Tip Top [Yavapai County].
- Colorado
  - El Paso 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 Colorado community of Tip Top [El Paso County].
- Kentucky
  - Hardin 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 Kentucky community of Tip Top [Hardin County].
- Missouri
  - Iron 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 Missouri community of Tip Top [Iron County].
- New York
  - Allegany County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Tip Top [Allegany County].
- South Carolina
  - Chester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Tip Top [Chester County].
  - Laurens 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 South Carolina community of Tip Top [Laurens County].
- Tennessee
  - Stewart County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Tip Top [Stewart County].
  - White 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 Tennessee community of Tip Top [White County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Tip Top ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Tip Top - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

The FIPS database contains an entry for Tip Top.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 51/78816 (Place Name: Tip Top (RR name for Tiptop))

County: Tazewell (FIPS State/County: 51/185)

Class: X3

More Orphans in Tazewell 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 Tazewell County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Tip Top 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.