Do you know of Ponderosa ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ponderosa. 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 Ponderosa.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Ponderosa, so we are uncertain whether Ponderosa 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 Ponderosa would be found somewhere in Burleigh County, North Dakota.
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 Ponderosa ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Ponderosa.
Within North Dakota, the name Ponderosa is unique.
Beyond North Dakota, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Mobile County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Ponderosa [Mobile County].
- Arkansas
- Pulaski County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Ponderosa [Pulaski County].
- California
- Tulare County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Ponderosa [Tulare County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Ponderosa [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ponderosa [Fayette County].
- Fulton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ponderosa [Fulton County].
- Toombs County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ponderosa [Toombs County].
- Kentucky
- Grayson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Ponderosa [Grayson County].
- Maryland
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Ponderosa [Montgomery County].
- New Mexico
- North Carolina
- Cumberland 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 North Carolina community of Ponderosa [Cumberland County].
- Wake County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ponderosa [Wake County].
- Wilson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ponderosa [Wilson County].
- South Carolina
- Charleston County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ponderosa [Charleston County].
- Florence County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ponderosa [Florence County].
- Greenville County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ponderosa [Greenville County].
- Tennessee
- Virginia
- Mecklenburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ponderosa [Mecklenburg County].
- West Virginia
- Wood County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Ponderosa [Wood County].
- Alabama
More Orphans in Burleigh 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 Burleigh County.
| Apple creek | |
| Glascock | |
| Burleigh | |
| Painted Woods | |
| Conger | |
| Crofte | Slaughter |
| Cromwell | Stewartsdale |
| Fort Lincoln | Wales |
| Frances |
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Ponderosa 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. |