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Do you know of Advance ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Advance, so we are uncertain whether Advance 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 Advance would be found somewhere in Adams County, Pennsylvania.

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 Advance ...

We found nineteen communities that share the name Advance.

There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named Advance.

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

  • Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
    • Indiana County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Advance [Indiana County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Baxter County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Advance [Baxter County].
      • Clay 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 Arkansas community of Advance [Clay County].
    • California
      • Tulare County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Advance [Tulare County].
    • Illinois
      • Jasper County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Advance [Jasper County].
    • Indiana
      • Boone County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Advance [Boone County].
    • Kansas
      • Sheridan 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 Advance [Sheridan County].
    • Kentucky
      • Greenup 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 Kentucky community of Advance [Greenup County].
    • Louisiana
      • Jackson Parish
      • 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 Louisiana community of Advance [Jackson Parish].
    • Michigan
      • Charlevoix County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Advance [Charlevoix County].
    • Mississippi
      • Marion 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 Mississippi community of Advance [Marion County].
    • Missouri
      • Stoddard County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Advance [Stoddard County].
    • North Carolina
      • Davie County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Advance [Davie County].
    • Ohio
      • Fulton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Advance [Fulton County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Advance.
    • Oregon
      • Clackamas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Advance [Clackamas County].
    • South Carolina
      • Orangeburg 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 Advance [Orangeburg County].
    • Texas
      • Parker County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Advance [Parker County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Shawano County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Advance [Shawano County].

More Orphans in  Adams 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 Adams County.

AramMenallen
 Monterey
Boyd 
 Orr Glen
Center Mills Station 
CharnitaQuaker Valley
Currens 
 Red Land
Granite HillRound Hill
Granite 
GreenstoneSell
 Sell's Station
HendrixStarners
Hershey HeightsSunnyside
Highfield 
 Traction
Indian Village 
 Wenks
LefevreWolf Hill
  

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 Advance 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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