Welcome to Windy ...

So far, we found very little information about Windy. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Windy to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Windy - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Windy, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Windy , we believe that it would have been located within present day Amherst County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Windy, you might consider that their post office opened in 1896.

Time Zone: The area where Windy was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Code where Windy was located: 434

Communities Also Named Windy ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 4 communities that are also named Windy - they are located in Alaska, British Columbia, Kentucky and West Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Windy.

Adding Windy to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Windy 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 Windy was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

X2X - From that list, the Windy post office opened in 1896.

We also found Windy on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Virginia (1911).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Windy.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Amherst County: www.countyofamherst.com/

The official website for State of Virginia: https://www.virginia.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Windy, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Virginia's counties, including Amherst, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/