Do you know of Rocky Hill ???

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

Our sources for Rocky Hill (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 Rocky Hill other than they indicate that Rocky Hill would be found somewhere in Somerset County, New Jersey.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1828.

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 Rocky Hill ...

We found eighteen communities that share the name Rocky Hill.

Within New Jersey, the name Rocky Hill is unique.

Beyond New Jersey, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Rocky Hill [Lawrence County].
- Arkansas
  - Van Buren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Rocky Hill [Van Buren County].
- California
  - Calaveras County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Rocky Hill [Calaveras County].
  - Tulare County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Rocky Hill [Tulare County].
- Connecticut
  - Hartford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Rocky Hill [Hartford County].
- Georgia
  - Grady County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Rocky Hill [Grady County].
- Kansas
  - Lincoln 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 Rocky Hill [Lincoln County].
- Kentucky
  - Barren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Rocky Hill [Barren County].
  - Edmonson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Rocky Hill [Edmonson County].
- Massachusetts
  - Worcester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Rocky Hill [Worcester County].
- Mississippi
  - Oktibbeha County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Rocky Hill [Oktibbeha County].
- New York
  - Orange County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Rocky Hill [Orange County].
- North Carolina
  - Transylvania County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Rocky Hill [Transylvania County].
- Ohio
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Rocky Hill [Jackson County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Chester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rocky Hill [Chester County].
- Tennessee
  - Knox County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Rocky Hill [Knox County].
- Texas
  - Falls County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Rocky Hill [Falls County].
  - Gillespie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Rocky Hill [Gillespie County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rocky Hill ...

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

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 Rocky Hill - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

George#&160;F. Cram Map of New Jersey (1905)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.

North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)

Shell Oil Road Map for New Jersey (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

More Orphans in Somerset 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 Somerset 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 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 Rocky Hill 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/