{"id":7477,"date":"2018-08-10T16:31:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T21:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/?p=7477"},"modified":"2018-08-10T16:31:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T21:31:11","slug":"couches-creek-lunenburg-county-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/couches-creek-lunenburg-county-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Couches Creek, Lunenburg County, Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My ancestor, Edward Jordan, secured a grant for 654 acres of land along Couches Creek in the newly formed Lunenburg County, Virginia, in 1748. <\/p>\n<p>In 1720, Thomas Couch, Sr., received a land grant in Brunswick County (now Lunenburg County, formed in 1746) along what is known today as Couches Creek. <\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">Couches Creek<br \/>\nZip code: 23952<br \/>\nLatitude: 36.9587612 N<br \/>\nLongitude: -78.320552 W<br \/>\nGNIS ID: 1465282\n<\/div>\n<p>Couches Creek runs from near Route 667 out of Victoria, VA, west to the North Meherrin River, traveling north of Lunenburg and passing under Route 40\/Lunenburg County Road. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7481\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"boxer\" title=\"Couches Creek Satellite Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Couches-Creek-Satellite-Map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Couches-Creek-Satellite-Map.jpg\" alt=\"Couches Creek Satellite Map\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Couches-Creek-Satellite-Map.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Couches-Creek-Satellite-Map-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Couches-Creek-Satellite-Map-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Couches Creek Satellite Map<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7482\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7482\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"boxer\" title=\"Couches Creek Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Couches-Creek-Map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Couches-Creek-Map.jpg\" alt=\"Couches Creek Map\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Couches-Creek-Map.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Couches-Creek-Map-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Couches-Creek-Map-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Couches Creek Map<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty much all I was able to find on Couches Creek. If you have anything to add, please leave a comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ancestor, Edward Jordan, secured a grant for 654 acres of land along Couches Creek in the newly formed Lunenburg County, Virginia, in 1748. In 1720, Thomas Couch, Sr., received a land grant in Brunswick County (now Lunenburg County, formed in 1746) along what is known today as Couches Creek. Couches Creek Zip code: 23952&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41,73],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-7477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-virginia","tag-jordan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3viLY-1WB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9496,"url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/useful-genealogy-links\/","url_meta":{"origin":7477,"position":0},"title":"Useful Genealogy Links","author":"Karen","date":"September 18, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Primary Sources Making of America is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. 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