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Welcome to Winfall ...

Winfall is located in Campbell County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Winfall, you might consider that their post office opened in 1876.

Winfall is 850 feet [259 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Winfall lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Winfall: 434

Communities Also Named Winfall ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Winfall - it's located in North Carolina.

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

Communities near Winfall ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Winfall.

  • Lynchburg
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Altavista
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Appomattox
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Hurt
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Hurt is located in Pittsylvania County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurt
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,211 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hurt <3>
  • Brookneal
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Gladys
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Yellow Branch
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Yellow Branch is located in Campbell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow Branch
  • Lawyers
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Lawyers is located in Campbell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawyers
  • Spring Mills
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Spring Mills is located in Appomattox County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Mills
  • Concord
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)

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 Winfall. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Winfall.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Winfall. 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 Winfall.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Winfall. See our Newspapers Page for Winfall.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Winfall ...

Looking for more information about Winfall? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Winfall, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Winfall.

Adding Winfall to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Winfall in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Winfall was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Winfall post office opened in 1876. The Winfall post office closed in 1932.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Winfall.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Virginia's counties, including Campbell, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Winfall - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/