Do you know of Colonial Village ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Colonial Village. 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 Colonial Village.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Colonial Village, so we are uncertain whether Colonial Village is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Colonial Village would be found somewhere in Madison County, Illinois.
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 Colonial Village ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Colonial Village.
There are two communities within Illinois that are also named Colonial Village.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Cook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Colonial Village [Cook County].
- Will County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Colonial Village [Will County].
- Cook County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Colonial Village [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
- Dougherty County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Colonial Village [Dougherty County].
- Indiana
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Colonial Village [Hancock County].
- Iowa
- Polk 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 Iowa community of Colonial Village [Polk County].
- Maryland
- Baltimore City
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Colonial Village [Baltimore City].
- New York
- Niagara County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Colonial Village [Niagara County].
- Pennsylvania
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Colonial Village [Montgomery County].
- Venango County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Colonial Village [Venango County].
- South Carolina
- Lancaster County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Colonial Village [Lancaster County].
- Tennessee
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Colonial Village [Hamilton County].
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Colonial Village [Knox County].
- Rutherford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Colonial Village [Rutherford County].
- Virginia
- Arlington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Colonial Village [Arlington County].
- Florida
More Orphans in Madison 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 Madison 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Colonial Village 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. |