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Do you know of Hollyville ???

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

We found mention of Hollyville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Mingo County, West Virginia.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1897 and closed  in 1899.

Communities Also Named Hollyville ...

We found two communities that share the name Hollyville.

Within West Virginia, the name Hollyville is unique.

Beyond West Virginia, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Delaware
      • Sussex County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Hollyville [Sussex County].
    • North Carolina
      • Pamlico County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Hollyville [Pamlico County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hollyville ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

More Orphans in  Mingo 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 Mingo County.

AlnwickLight
Appleton 
ArmenMcCarr
 Millstone
Beech CreekMitchell Branch Junction
Ben Creek SpurMitchell Branch
Breading 
ButtercupNeds Branch
 Nelco
Clarmatan 
ColonelPuritan
  
DomesticRose Siding
  
EdgartonScaggs
EldaScarlet Glen
ErawSteep Gut Hollow
EugeneSycamore Junction
  
Gilbert YardTekram
GlenalumTimbar
  
HaleUde
Hatfield Bottom 
 Vimy
Kimberling 
 West End
LavoyWest Gilbert
Lick Fork Spur Junction 

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.
<3>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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