Do you know of Forest Heights ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Forest Heights. 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 Forest Heights.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Forest Heights, so we are uncertain whether Forest Heights 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 Forest Heights would be found somewhere in Cook 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 Forest Heights ...
We found sixteen communities that share the name Forest Heights.
Within Illinois, the name Forest Heights is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fifteen 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 Forest Heights [New Haven County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Forest Heights [Hillsborough County].
- Leon 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 Florida community of Forest Heights [Leon County].
- Georgia
- Bulloch County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Forest Heights [Bulloch County].
- Clarke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Forest Heights [Clarke County].
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Forest Heights [Douglas County].
- Muscogee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Forest Heights [Muscogee County].
- Maryland
- Prince George's County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Forest Heights [Prince George's County].
- Montana
- Lewis and Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Forest Heights [Lewis and Clark County].
- New Mexico
- Lincoln 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 New Mexico community of Forest Heights [Lincoln County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Forest Heights.
- South Carolina
- Aiken County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Forest Heights [Aiken County].
- Kershaw County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Forest Heights [Kershaw County].
- Sumter County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Forest Heights [Sumter County].
- Tennessee
- Loudon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Forest Heights [Loudon County].
- Texas
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Forest Heights [Orange County].
- Connecticut
More Orphans in Cook 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 Cook 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 Forest Heights 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. |