Do you know of Wilsonville ???

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

Our sources for Wilsonville (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Wilsonville other than they indicate that Wilsonville would be found somewhere in Highland County, Virginia.

Communities Also Named Wilsonville ...

We found 21 communities that share the name Wilsonville.

Within Virginia, the name Wilsonville is unique.

Beyond Virginia, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 21 communities, twenty are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Shelby County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Wilsonville [Shelby County].
- Connecticut
  - Windham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Wilsonville [Windham County].
- Georgia
  - Coffee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Wilsonville [Coffee County].
- Illinois
  - Macoupin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Wilsonville [Macoupin County].
- Iowa
  - Van Buren County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Wilsonville [Van Buren County].
- Kansas
  - Allen County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Wilsonville [Allen County].
  - Bourbon 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 Wilsonville [Bourbon County].
  - Cherokee 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 Wilsonville [Cherokee 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 Wilsonville [Shawnee County].
- Kentucky
  - Boyle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Wilsonville [Boyle County].
  - Spencer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Wilsonville [Spencer County].
- Missouri
  - Iron County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Wilsonville [Iron County].
- Nebraska
  - Furnas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Wilsonville [Furnas County].
- North Carolina
  - Chatham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Wilsonville [Chatham County].
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Wilsonville [Lincoln County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Wilsonville.
- Oregon
  - Clackamas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Wilsonville [Clackamas County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Pike County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Wilsonville [Pike County].
- South Carolina
  - Charleston County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Wilsonville [Charleston County].
- Tennessee
  - Cocke County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Wilsonville [Cocke County].
- Utah
  - Emery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Wilsonville [Emery County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wilsonville ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Wilsonville - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

More Orphans in Highland 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 Highland County.

Crabbottom
	Spruce Hill
Flood	Strait Creek

Head Waters	Valley Center
Hull	Vilna

Pinckney	Wier
Poverty

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.

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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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Wilsonville 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.