Moon, Virginia

Moon is an unincorporated community in Mathews County, Virginia, United States. Moon is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east-northeast of Mathews. Moon has a post office with ZIP code 23119.[2]

Moon, Virginia
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 37°26′36″N 76°17′34″W
Country	United States
State	Virginia
County	Mathews
Elevation	10 ft (3 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code	23119
Area code(s)	804
GNIS feature ID	1470699[1]

The origin of the name "Moon" is obscure,[3] though the community may take its name from early settler Abraham Moon who patented 500 acres of land in the area on June 6, 1650.[4] By 1657, Abraham Moon's land had passed to George Billups,[5] whose descendants still lived on some of the land as recently as 2009.[6] "Milford," the Billups family home, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[7]

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Moon, Virginia
2. ZIP Code Lookup
3. Moyer, Armond; Moyer, Winifred (1958). The origins of unusual place-names. Keystone Pub. Associates. pp. 141–142.
4. Moon, Abraham (6 June 1650). "Land Grant 6 June 1650". Online Catalog of the Library of Virginia. Virginia Land Office Patents No. 9, 1697-1706 (v.1 & 2 p.1-742), p. 245 (Reel 9). Retrieved November 29, 2018. Five hundred acres of land beginning west to the land of John Lylley lying on the southwest side of Milford Haven.
5. Borne, Thomas (5 July 1657). "Assignation of Land 5 July 1657". Online Catalog of the Library of Virginia. Virginia Land Office Patents No. 9, 1697-1706 (v.1 & 2 p.1-742), p. 246 (Reel 9).
6. Hamilton, Sherry (January 9, 2013). "Historic property in new family's hands after 350 years". Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal. Retrieved November 30, 2018.
7. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.