Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Locust Mount

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Locust Mount

Locust Mount’s post office opened in 1839

Below: maps from 1931 on.

1839first post office
0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory
Quick answers

How Locust Mount began

When was Locust Mount founded?

1839

The Locust Mount post office opened in 1839, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 52187 years
Founding year: the first Locust Mount post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Locust Mount’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Locust Mount are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1839: 187 years of Locust Mount.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Locust Mount’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Locust Mount’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Timeline

Locust Mount, 1839 to 1931

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1839Post officeThe Locust Mount post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1907Post officeThe Locust Mount post office closes
  5. 1931On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story so far

Locust Mount, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Locust Mount yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Locust Mount is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census, with a population of 52. The CDP is in southeastern Accomack County, on the north side of Virginia State Route 180 (Wachapreague Road), which leads east 1.1 kilometres (0.7 mi) to Wachapreague and west 3.5 miles (5.6 km) to U.S. Route 13 at Keller.

Its first post office opened in 1839.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your album
On the map

Locust Mount on the map in 1931

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Locust Mount.

Locust Mount on the 1931 USGS map1931Accomac sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Locust Mount.

Famous people

Famous people close to Locust Mount

Nobody well known was born in Locust Mount itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

See all →
Henry A. WiseUnited States Congressman and governor of Virgi… · b. 1806
Charles I. StengleAmerican politician · b. 1869
Thomas H. B. BrowneAmerican politician · b. 1844
Edward Southey JoynesAmerican scholar · b. 1834
J
Josh NolzAmerican soccer player · b. 1980
B
Barbara Bohannan-SheppardAmerican politician · b. 1950
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Locust Mount had its own post office from 1839 to 1907.

Locust Mount
1839–1907
18301930today

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Locust Mount’s history

What year was Locust Mount founded?

The Locust Mount post office opened in 1839, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

Town Square →
Start a conversation
Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.