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.

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Childs, so we are uncertain whether Childs 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 Childs would be found somewhere in Fayette 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 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 ...
- Erie 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 [Erie 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].

More Orphans in Fayette 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 Fayette County.

Ache	Morrell
Ambleside	Murphy Siding
Ashman
Atchison	Nicolay
	North Connellsville
Beesons
Big Meadow Run	Oakdale
Bowest Junction	Ormond
Broadford Junction
Brookvale	Pike Mine
Browns Run Junction	Porter Hill
Brownsville Junction
Bryan	Rainey Junction
	Redstone Junction
Casparis	Rock Works
Cheat Haven	Rosedale
Coal Brook	Round Bottom
Cookstown	Royal
Crozier Run Branch Junction	Ruble

Darent	Salt Lick
Demuth	Sandrock
Dunlap Creek Junction	Shaffers Corner
	Sherrick's
East California	Shinbone
East Connellsville	Shoaf Ovens
East Roscoe	Simpson
Egypt	South Brownsville
Emme	Stambaugh
	Stickel
Fallen Timbers	Strum
Falls City	Sullivan
Freed	Summit Mines
Frost
	Tintsman's
Gist	Tippecanoe Station
Greene Junction	Tremont
Greenwood	Tyrone Mills
Guyaux
	Uniontown North
Hickman
Hill Crest	Vance Mill Junction
Hillcoke
	Wanda
Jamison	Watt
Juniataville	Watts Transfer
	Whitsett Junction
Lambert Works	Wirsing
Layton's Station	Wooddale
Leith - Hatfield	Woodvale
Lemont	Wymps Gap
Lilly Run Junction	Wynn

Monvue	Yough
Moores Junction

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.