Do you know of Valley ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Valley. 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 Valley.
We found mention of Valley as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Tazewell County, Virginia.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1849 and closed in 1866.
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 Valley ...
We found 34 communities that share the name Valley.
Within Virginia, the name Valley is unique.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 34 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 34 communities, 31 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Chambers County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Valley [Chambers County].
- Arkansas
- Colorado
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Valley [Jefferson County].
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Valley [Clark County].
- Hodgeman 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 Kansas community of Valley [Hodgeman County].
- Shawnee County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Valley [Shawnee County].
- Trego County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Valley [Trego County].
- Kentucky
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Valley [Jefferson County].
- Lewis 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 Valley [Lewis County].
- Maine
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Montana
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Valley [Jefferson County].
- Nebraska
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Valley [Douglas County].
- Nevada
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Valley [Clark County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Valley.
- New Jersey
- Hunterdon County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Valley [Hunterdon County].
- Middlesex 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 New Jersey community of Valley [Middlesex County].
- Passaic County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Valley [Passaic County].
- North Carolina
- Avery County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Valley [Avery County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Valley.
- Ohio
- Columbiana County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Valley [Columbiana County].
- Pennsylvania
- Chester 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 Pennsylvania community of Valley [Chester County].
- Clarion County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Valley [Clarion County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Valley.
- Texas
- Washington
- Stevens County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Valley [Stevens County].
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Vernon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Valley [Vernon County].
- Wyoming
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Valley ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Valley:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
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 ...
| <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 Valley 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/ |