Do you know of Alexandria ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Alexandria. 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 Alexandria.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Alexandria, so we are uncertain whether Alexandria 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 Alexandria would be found somewhere in Essex County, New Jersey.
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 Alexandria ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Alexandria.
Within New Jersey, the name Alexandria is unique.
Beyond New Jersey, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 21 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Calhoun County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Alexandria [Calhoun County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Alexandria.
- Georgia
- Elbert 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 Georgia community of Alexandria [Elbert County].
- Indiana
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Alexandria [Madison County].
- Kansas
- Leavenworth 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 Kansas community of Alexandria [Leavenworth County].
- Kentucky
- Campbell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Alexandria [Campbell County].
- Kenton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Alexandria [Kenton County].
- Louisiana
- Rapides Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Alexandria [Rapides Parish].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Alexandria.
- Minnesota
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Alexandria [Douglas County].
- Missouri
- Callaway County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Alexandria [Callaway County].
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Alexandria [Clark County].
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Alexandria [Lincoln County].
- Nebraska
- Thayer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Alexandria [Thayer County].
- New Hampshire
- Grafton County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Alexandria [Grafton County].
- Ohio
- Licking County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Alexandria [Licking County].
- Ross County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Alexandria [Ross County].
- Scioto County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Alexandria [Scioto County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Alexandria.
- Pennsylvania
- Huntingdon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Alexandria [Huntingdon County].
- South Dakota
- Hanson County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Alexandria [Hanson County].
- Tennessee
- DeKalb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Alexandria [DeKalb County].
- Virginia
- Alexandria City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Alexandria [Alexandria City].
- Virginia Beach City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Alexandria [Virginia Beach City].
- Alabama
More Orphans in Essex 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 Essex 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 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 Alexandria 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. |