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Welcome to Orleans Cross Roads ...

Orleans Cross Roads is located in Morgan County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Orleans Cross Roads, you might consider that their post office opened in 1866.

A typical abbreviation for Orleans Cross Roads: Orleans Xrds.

See our Genealogy Helper Page for Orleans Cross Roads for more information about variations on the name of Orleans Cross Roads.

Orleans Cross Roads is 500 feet [152 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Orleans Cross Roads: 304 & 681<3>

Communities near Orleans Cross Roads ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Orleans Cross Roads.

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Orleans Cross Roads ...

Looking for more information about Orleans Cross Roads? 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 Orleans Cross Roads, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Orleans Cross Roads.

Adding Orleans Cross Roads to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Orleans Cross Roads 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 Orleans Cross Roads was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Orleans Cross Roads post office opened in 1866. The Orleans Cross Roads post office closed in 1950.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Orleans Cross Roads.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of West Virginia's counties, including Morgan, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Orleans Cross Roads - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 304 code has been Overlayed with the 681 area code. New phone numbers in the Orleans Cross Roads area will be assigned with one of these codes: 304 or 681. As a result, placing a call in the Orleans Cross Roads area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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/