Do you know of Kearney ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Kearney, so we are uncertain whether Kearney 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 Kearney 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 Kearney ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Kearney.

Within New Jersey, the name Kearney is unique.

Beyond New Jersey, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fifteen 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 Kearney [Calhoun County].
- Arkansas
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Kearney [Jefferson County].
- California
  - Los Angeles 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 California community of Kearney [Los Angeles County].
- Kansas
  - Grant 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 Kearney [Grant County].
  - Hamilton County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Kearney [Hamilton County].
  - Kearny County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Kearney [Kearny County].
- Maryland
  - Garrett County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Kearney [Garrett County].
- Mississippi
  - Yazoo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Kearney [Yazoo County].
- Missouri
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Kearney [Clay County].
- Nebraska
  - Buffalo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Kearney [Buffalo County].
- New Mexico
  - Otero County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Kearney [Otero County].
- North Carolina
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Kearney [Franklin County].
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Kearney.
- Pennsylvania
  - Bedford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Kearney [Bedford County].
  - Bucks County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Kearney [Bucks County].
- South Carolina
  - Laurens 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 South Carolina community of Kearney [Laurens County].

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 ...

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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 Kearney 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.