Do you know of Northridge ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Northridge, so we are uncertain whether Northridge 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 Northridge would be found somewhere in Worcester County, Massachusetts.

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 Northridge ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Northridge.

Within Massachusetts, the name Northridge is unique.

Beyond Massachusetts, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Northridge.
- California
  - Los Angeles County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Northridge [Los Angeles County].
- Colorado
  - El Paso 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 Colorado community of Northridge [El Paso County].
- Delaware
  - Kent County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Northridge [Kent County].
- Georgia
  - Clarke County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Northridge [Clarke County].
  - Fayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Northridge [Fayette County].
- Illinois
  - Adams County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Northridge [Adams County].
- Maryland
  - Harford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Northridge [Harford County].
- North Carolina
  - Rockingham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Northridge [Rockingham County].
- Ohio
  - Clark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Northridge [Clark County].
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Northridge [Montgomery County].
- Texas
  - Starr County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Northridge [Starr County].
- Utah
  - Weber County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Northridge [Weber County].
- Virginia
  - Stafford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Northridge [Stafford County].

More Orphans in Worcester 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 Worcester County.

Ashburnam Center
Ashburnham Junction	New Braintree Station
Athol Center	New England Village
Athol Depot	Nipmuck Pond
	North Ashburnham Station
Barber	North Brookfield Center
Barber's Crossing	North Lancaster
Barre Center	North Oxford Mills
Bates Crossing	North Oxford Station
Berlin Station	North Smithfield
Bolton Station	Northborough Center
Brookfield Center	Northbridge Compact
Brooks Station
Burrageville	Old Furnace
	Oxford Center
Camp Grounds
Chaffin	Pages Beach
Charlton Center	Perry's
Charlton Station	Phillipston Station
Clappville	Podunk
Cleghorn	Point Pleasant
Clinton Junction	Prentice Gardens
Clintonville	Princeton Depot
Coldbrook Station
Coldbrook	Quinsigamond
Creamery
	Royalston Station
Dudley Hill	Rutland Center
	Rutland Summit
East Douglass Station
East Fitchburg	Shrewsburty
East Hubbardston	South Clinton
East Webster	South Grafton
East Worcester	South Uxbridge
Elmdale	South Westminster
	Southboro
Farnums	Southbridge Center
Federal	Spencer Center
Fort Devens	State Line Station
	Stone's Crossing
Gardner Station	Strafford
Grafton Center
Greenwood	Thayer
	Turnpike
Hardwick Center	Twin City Plaza
Hardwick Station
Harwoods	Union Point
Heywood	Uxbridge Center
Hopedale Center
Hospital Station	Waites
Howarts	Warren Center
	Washacum
Lake Quinsigamond Shore	Waterford
Lancaster Center	Webster Center
Leicester Center	Webster Junction
Leominster Centre	Webster Mills
Lincoln Square	West Berlin Junction
	West Brookfield Center
Milbury Junction	West Gardner
Milbury	Westminster Depot
Milford Center	Westminster Station
Millville Center	Whitins
Mount Saint James	Woonsocket Junction
Mount Wachusett	Woonsocket

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 Northridge 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.