Do you know of East River ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about East River. 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 East River.

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of East River, so we are uncertain whether East River 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 East River would be found somewhere in Kankakee 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 East River ...

We found seven communities that share the name East River.

Within Illinois, the name East River is unique.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seven communities, six are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Connecticut
  - New Haven County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of East River [New Haven County].
- New York
  - Cortland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of East River [Cortland County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of East River.
- Texas
  - Harris 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 Texas community of East River [Harris County].
  - Liberty County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of East River [Liberty County].
  - Montgomery 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 Texas community of East River [Montgomery County].
- West Virginia
  - Mercer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of East River [Mercer County].

More Orphans in Kankakee 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 Kankakee County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 East River 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.