Do you know of Kensington ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Kensington. 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 Kensington.
Our sources for Kensington (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Kensington other than they indicate that Kensington would be found somewhere in Oakland County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1836 and closed in 1902.
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 Kensington ...
We found 28 communities that share the name Kensington.
There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Kensington.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 26 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Kensington [Wayne County].
- Wayne County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Maricopa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Kensington [Maricopa County].
- California
- Contra Costa County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Kensington [Contra Costa County].
- Connecticut
- Hartford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Kensington [Hartford County].
- Georgia
- Chatham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Kensington [Chatham County].
- Columbia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Kensington [Columbia County].
- Walker County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Kensington [Walker County].
- Illinois
- Cook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Kensington [Cook County].
- Will County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Kensington [Will County].
- Kansas
- Smith County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Kensington [Smith County].
- Kentucky
- Boone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Kensington [Boone County].
- Maryland
- Anne Arundel County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Kensington [Anne Arundel County].
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Kensington [Montgomery County].
- Minnesota
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Kensington [Douglas County].
- New Hampshire
- Rockingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Kensington [Rockingham County].
- New York
- Erie 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 York community of Kensington [Erie County].
- Kings County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Kensington [Kings County].
- Nassau County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Kensington [Nassau County].
- Ohio
- Columbiana County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Kensington [Columbiana County].
- Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Kensington [Philadelphia County].
- Westmoreland 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 Pennsylvania community of Kensington [Westmoreland County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Kensington.
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Kensington.
- South Carolina
- Berkeley County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Kensington [Berkeley County].
- Georgetown County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Kensington [Georgetown County].
- Orangeburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Kensington [Orangeburg County].
- Tennessee
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Kensington [Knox County].
- Virginia
- Norfolk City
- 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 Virginia community of Kensington [Norfolk City].
- Arizona
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Kensington ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Kensington:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Kensington - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
More Orphans in Oakland 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 Oakland 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 Kensington 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |