Do you know of Hampden ???

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

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

We found thirteen communities that share the name Hampden.

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

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

Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Cumberland 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 Hampden [Cumberland County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Marengo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Hampden [Marengo County].
- Kansas
  - Coffey 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 Hampden [Coffey County].
  - Neosho County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Hampden [Neosho County].
- Maine
  - Penobscot County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Hampden [Penobscot County].
- Maryland
  - Baltimore City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Hampden [Baltimore City].
- Massachusetts
  - Hampden County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Hampden [Hampden County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
  - Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Hampden.
- North Dakota
  - Ramsey County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Hampden [Ramsey County].
- Ohio
  - Geauga 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 Ohio community of Hampden [Geauga County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Hampden.
- Quebec
  - Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Hampden.
- West Virginia
  - Mingo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Hampden [Mingo County].

More Orphans in Berks 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 Berks County.

Albany Station	Lower Heidelberg
Alliance	Lynoak
Alsace	Lynwood
Athol
	Manatawny Station
Barto's	Melrose
Belt Line Junction	Mountain Sunset
Berks	Mountain
Birdsboro' Station
Bittenbender	Naomi
Black Bear	Nora
Bower's Station	North Reading
Brower
Brumfieldville	Obold
	Orrton
Calcium
Clingan	Passmore
Colebrookdale Station	Perry
Cumru	Pike Township
	Pikesville
DeLong	Pleasantville
Denglers	Poplar Neck
Drebelbis
	Reading Gardens
East Berkley	Reinert
Edenburg	Robeson
Esterly	Robesonia Furnaces
Eton	Rohnersburg
Exeter Station	Rolling Hills

Farview	Schuylkill Bend
Furnace	Schweyers
	Scullhill
Gehman	Shamrock
Geiger's Mills	Sheerlund Forest
Greenfields	Shoemakersville Station
	South Evansville
Hamburgh Station	South Mountain
Hampton	Spring Valley
Hendleton	Swoyers
Hiester's Mill	Sylvan Dell
Hill Church
Hummels Store	Temple Station
	Tulpehocken
Kissinger
Klapperthal	Upper Bern
Kricktown	Upper Berne

Lesher	Walter's Park
Lichty	West Monocacy
Lincoln Heights	Wetzel
Liscum	White Bear
Lorah	Wyomissing Junction
Lower Bern

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 Hampden 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.