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Welcome to Van Buren Furnace ...

Van Buren Furnace is located in Shenandoah County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Van Buren Furnace, you might consider that their post office opened in 1851.

Van Buren Furnace is 1,310 feet [399 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Van Buren Furnace lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Van Buren Furnace: 540 & 826<3>

Communities near Van Buren Furnace ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Van Buren Furnace.

  • Front Royal
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Strasburg
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Woodstock
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Mount Jackson
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Stephens City
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Middletown
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Edinburg
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Toms Brook
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Wardensville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Maurertown
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Van Buren Furnace. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Van Buren Furnace.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Van Buren Furnace. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Van Buren Furnace.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Van Buren Furnace. See our Newspapers Page for Van Buren Furnace.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Van Buren Furnace ...

Looking for more information about Van Buren Furnace? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Van Buren Furnace, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Van Buren Furnace.

Adding Van Buren Furnace to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Van Buren Furnace in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Van Buren Furnace was in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Van Buren Furnace.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Virginia's counties, including Shenandoah, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Van Buren Furnace - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 540 code has been Overlayed with the 826 area code. New phone numbers in the Van Buren Furnace area will be assigned with one of these codes: 540 or 826. As a result, placing a call in the Van Buren Furnace area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.