Welcome to Orchard Place ...
So far, we found very little information about Orchard Place. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Orchard Place to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Orchard Place - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Orchard Place, please Contact Us.
While we don't have the exact location of Orchard Place , we believe that it would have been located within present day Cook County<2>.
While we don't have a date for the founding of Orchard Place, you might consider that their post office opened in 1886.
A typical abbreviation for Orchard Place: Orchard Pl. (or less commonly used: Orchard Plc.)
Time Zone: The area where Orchard Place was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time
Communities Also Named Orchard Place ...
Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 3 communities that are also named Orchard Place - they are located in Maryland, New Mexico and Utah.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Orchard Place.
Adding Orchard Place to Our Gazetteer ...
We originally found mention of Orchard Place in the FIPS-55 file. For more information, see the Referenced FIPS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.
From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Orchard Place was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
From that list, the Orchard Place post office opened in 1886.
We also found Orchard Place in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).
For more details, see References and Mentions for Orchard Place.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Cook County: www.co.cook.il.us/
The official website for State of Illinois: https://illinois.gov
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Orchard Place, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | If you're interested in how the shape of Illinois' counties, including Cook, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |