Do you know of Brookdale ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Brookdale, so we are uncertain whether Brookdale 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 Brookdale would be found somewhere in Cambria 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 Brookdale ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Brookdale.

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

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, seventeen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Susquehanna County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Brookdale [Susquehanna County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Santa Cruz County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Brookdale [Santa Cruz County].
- Illinois
  - Cook County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Brookdale [Cook County].
- Iowa
  - Plymouth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Brookdale [Plymouth County].
- Kansas
  - Rush 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 Brookdale [Rush County].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Brookdale.
- Maryland
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Brookdale [Montgomery County].
- Missouri
  - Saint Louis 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 Missouri community of Brookdale [Saint Louis County].
- New Jersey
  - Camden 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 New Jersey community of Brookdale [Camden County].
  - Essex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Brookdale [Essex County].
- New York
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Brookdale [Monroe County].
  - Saint Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Brookdale [Saint Lawrence County].
- North Carolina
  - Henderson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Brookdale [Henderson County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Brookdale.
- Ohio
  - Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Brookdale [Lawrence County].
- Quebec
  - Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Brookdale.
- South Carolina
  - Orangeburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Brookdale [Orangeburg County].
  - Spartanburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Brookdale [Spartanburg County].
- Washington
  - Pierce County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Brookdale [Pierce County].
- Wisconsin
  - Milwaukee 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 Wisconsin community of Brookdale [Milwaukee County].

More Orphans in Cambria 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 Cambria 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 Brookdale 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.