Do you know of Red Oak ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Red Oak. 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 Red Oak.
Our sources for Red Oak (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Red Oak other than they indicate that Red Oak would be found somewhere in Monroe County, Alabama.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 and closed in 1900.
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.
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.
Communities Also Named Red Oak ...
We found 23 communities that share the name Red Oak.
There is one other community in Alabama which is also named Red Oak.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Alabama ...
- Covington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Red Oak [Covington County].
- Covington County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Garland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Red Oak [Garland County].
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Stephenson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Red Oak [Stephenson County].
- Iowa
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Red Oak [Montgomery County].
- Kentucky
- Grayson County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Red Oak [Grayson County].
- Logan County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Red Oak [Logan County].
- Louisiana
- East Baton Rouge Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Red Oak [East Baton Rouge Parish].
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Oscoda County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Red Oak [Oscoda County].
- Saint Joseph County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Red Oak [Saint Joseph County].
- Missouri
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Red Oak [Lawrence County].
- North Carolina
- Oklahoma
- Latimer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Red Oak [Latimer County].
- Pennsylvania
- Lackawanna County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Red Oak [Lackawanna County].
- South Carolina
- Beaufort County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Red Oak [Beaufort County].
- Tennessee
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Red Oak [Lincoln County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Red Oak ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Red Oak:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Red Oak - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Monroe 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 Monroe County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Red Oak could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |