Do you know of Childs ???

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

We found mention of Childs as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Erie 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.

Communities Also Named Childs ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Childs.

There are two communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Childs.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Fayette 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 Pennsylvania community of Childs [Fayette County].
- Lackawanna County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Childs [Lackawanna County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
  - Pima County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Childs [Pima County].
- Florida
  - Highlands County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Childs [Highlands County].
- Maryland
  - Cecil County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Childs [Cecil County].
- Minnesota
  - Wilkin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Childs [Wilkin County].
- Montana
  - Sanders County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Childs [Sanders County].
- Nebraska
  - Douglas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Childs [Douglas County].
- New York
  - Orleans County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Childs [Orleans County].
- South Carolina
  - Richland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Childs [Richland County].
- West Virginia
  - Wetzel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Childs [Wetzel County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Childs ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Childs - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Erie County ...

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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 Erie 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 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 Childs 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.