Do you know of Gold Hill ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Gold Hill. 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 Gold Hill.
Our sources for Gold Hill (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 Gold Hill other than they indicate that Gold Hill would be found somewhere in Grant County, West Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1877 and closed in 1894.
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.
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.
Communities Also Named Gold Hill ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Gold Hill.
Within West Virginia, the name Gold Hill is unique.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Pope County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Gold Hill [Pope County].
- California
- Colorado
- Nevada
- New Mexico
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Gold Hill [Grant County].
- North Carolina
- Hoke County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Gold Hill [Hoke County].
- Rockingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Gold Hill [Rockingham County].
- Rowan County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Gold Hill [Rowan County].
- Oregon
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Gold Hill [Jackson County].
- Utah
- Tooele County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Gold Hill [Tooele County].
- Virginia
- Buckingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Gold Hill [Buckingham County].
- Washington
- Okanogan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Gold Hill [Okanogan County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Gold Hill ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Gold Hill:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Gold Hill - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Grant 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 Grant County.
| Amanda | Hezron |
| Barrett | Ketterman |
| Beechwood | |
| Old Arthur | |
| Corner | |
| Stony River | |
| Gorman | |
| Wilson's Mills | |
| Hambleton |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |