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

Our source wasn't clear whether West Fredericksburg 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 West Fredericksburg would be found somewhere in , Virginia.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Fredericksburg ...

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

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Appalachia & Piedmont
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for West Fredericksburg.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 51/84400 (Place Name: West Fredericksburg)

County: Fredericksburg (city) (FIPS State/County: 51/630)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- West Fredericksburg) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

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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.