Do you know of Oakwood Park ???

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

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

We found nine communities that share the name Oakwood Park.

There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named Oakwood Park.

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

Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Cumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Oakwood Park [Cumberland County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Indiana
  - Kosciusko County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Oakwood Park [Kosciusko County].
- Maryland
  - Anne Arundel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Oakwood Park [Anne Arundel County].
- Michigan
  - Wayne 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 Michigan community of Oakwood Park [Wayne County].
- Missouri
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Oakwood Park [Clay County].
- New Jersey
  - Union County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Oakwood Park [Union County].
- Ohio
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Oakwood Park [Washington County].
- South Carolina
  - Beaufort County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Oakwood Park [Beaufort County].
- Virginia
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Oakwood Park [Montgomery County].

More Orphans in Luzerne 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 Luzerne County.

Abington
Alberts Corners	Maltby
Alden Station	Maple Run
Alderson	Maxwell
Alum	Meadow Run
Ashmore	Mill Creek
Auchincloss	Mill Hollow
	Moraine
Beach Grove	Morrison
Beaumont	Mount Surprise
Beaupland	Mount Zion
Beech Haven Ferry	Mountain Park
Belbend
Bennett	Newport
Bergers	North End
Black Ridge	North Wilkesbarre
Blackman	Nuangola
Blake's
Briarbrook	Oakleaf
Buckalew	Old Cranberry
Butzbach	Old Forge
	Olivers Mills
California	Oneida Junction
Chauncey	Orchard
Christopher
Coalridge	Peely
Council Crest	Pink Ash Junction
Council Ridge	Pittston Ferry
Coxton	Pittston Station
Cranberry Ridge	Pittston Summit
Crestwood	Plains Junction
	Ply,mouth Ferry
Deringer	Pond Creek Junction
Dorranceton	Prospect Rock
Dorrancetown
Duryea Junction	Raub's
	Retreat
Edwardsdale	Reyburn
Empire	Rhone
Enterprise Siding	Rock Cabin
Espy Run	Roosevelt

Fades Creek	Schooley
Fairview Hills	Sheldon
Fairview Park	Sloyersville
Forest Castle	South Wilkes-barre
	Stanton
Glen Summit Springs	Stockton
	Sugar Loaf Station
Harden	Sugarloaf
Hardpan	Summit
Hardpen	Sunshine
Harvey Junction
Harwood Junction	Tank
Harwood Mines	Town Line
Hazelbrook	Trailwood
Hazelton	Tunnel
Hazle Village	Turnbach
Heidelberg	Tyler
Hicks Ferry
Hollers Hill	Upper Lehigh Junction
Honey Pot	Upper Raubs

Jeanesville	Vexit Junction
Jenkins Junction
Jenkins	Warsaw
	West Pittston Junction
Kingston - Forty Fort	West Side
Kunckle	Westmoor
	Woodside - Drifton
Lattimer Mines
Laurel Gardens	Yates
Lee Mine
Lookout	Zehner
Luzerne Station	Zion

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 Oakwood Park 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.