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This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Virelco. 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 Virelco.<1>

Our source wasn't clear whether Virelco was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Virelco would be found somewhere in Dickenson County, Virginia.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Virelco ...

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

North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Virelco.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 51/81296   (Place Name: Virelco)

County: Dickenson     (FIPS State/County: 51/051)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Virelco) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Dickenson 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 Dickenson County.

Allen 
AvaMartha Gap
 Moss
BessieMullin
  
CaneyNasbie
Counts 
CrabtreeOsborns Gap
Crane's Nest 
 Pittco
FestoonPotters Flats
Flat Spur 
 Rual
Grizzle 
 Sand Lick
Holly CreekSelton
HomadeSplashdam,
Honeycamp 
 Toms Bottom
Lick ForkTrammel Creek
Long Branch 

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.