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Welcome to Villa ...So far, we found very little information about Villa. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Villa to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Villa, please Contact Us. Villa would have been located within present day Franklin County<2>. The location of Villa has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Villa, you might consider that their post office opened in 1854. While the community is gone, the present day location for Villa is 870 feet [265 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Villa was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time If Villa still existed, it would have been in the (540) area code. Communities Also Named Villa ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 5 communities that are also named Villa - they are located in Delaware, Ohio, Texas, Utah and West Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Villa. Communities near Villa ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Villa.
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 Villa. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Villa. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Villa. 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 Villa. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Villa. See our Newspapers Page for Villa. Adding Villa to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Villa in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Villa was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Villa in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Villa. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Franklin County: www.franklincountyva.org/ The official website for State of Virginia: https://www.virginia.gov/ Footnotes ...
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