Do you know of Forest City ???

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

Our sources for Forest City (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Forest City other than they indicate that Forest City would be found somewhere in Missoula County, Montana.

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 City ...

We found nineteen communities that share the name Forest City.

Within Montana, the name Forest City is unique.

Beyond Montana, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, eighteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
  - Orange 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 City [Orange County].
  - Seminole County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Forest City [Seminole County].
- Illinois
  - Mason County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Forest City [Mason County].
- Indiana
  - Jasper County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Forest City [Jasper County].
- Iowa
  - Howard County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Forest City [Howard County].
  - Winnebago County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Forest City [Winnebago County].
- Maine
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Forest City [Washington County].
- Michigan
  - Manistee 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 Michigan community of Forest City [Manistee County].
- Minnesota
  - Meeker County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Forest City [Meeker County].
- Missouri
  - Holt County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Forest City [Holt County].
  - Saint Louis 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 Missouri community of Forest City [Saint Louis County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Forest City.
- New York
  - Lewis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Forest City [Lewis County].
- North Carolina
  - Rutherford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Forest City [Rutherford County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Susquehanna County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Forest City [Susquehanna County].
- South Dakota
  - Potter County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Forest City [Potter County].
- Utah
  - Utah County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Forest City [Utah County].
- Washington
  - Kitsap 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 Washington community of Forest City [Kitsap County].
- Wisconsin
  - Bayfield 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 Wisconsin community of Forest City [Bayfield County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Forest City ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Forest City:

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Forest City - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in Missoula County ...

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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 Missoula 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 Forest City 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.