Do you know of Park Hills ???

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

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

We found eight communities that share the name Park Hills.

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

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

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
  - Effingham 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 Illinois community of Park Hills [Effingham County].
- Iowa
  - Marion 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 Iowa community of Park Hills [Marion County].
- Kentucky
  - Kenton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Park Hills [Kenton County].
- Missouri
  - Saint Francois County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Park Hills [Saint Francois County].
- South Carolina
  - Spartanburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Park Hills [Spartanburg County].
- West Virginia
  - Cabell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Park Hills [Cabell County].
  - Monongalia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Park Hills [Monongalia County].

More Orphans in York 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 York County.

Apple Grove	Naces
	New Sinsheim
Baresville
Bentzel	Okete
Bigdam
Bigmount	Park Heights
Bowmans Store	Parke
Brilhart	Parks
Brockie	Peach Bottom
Brodbeck	Penn Heights
Brogueville Station	Pine Hill
Brookside	Plaza Heights
	Pleasant Hill
Cabbane	Pleasureville Heights
Campbell	Porters
Castle Fin Station
Chanceford	Rossville
Coal Cabin Beach	Roy
Codorus Mills
Codorus	Sensheim
Constitution	Shetters Grove
	Shiloh East
Deer Brook	Shorbes Hill
	Silver Lake
Enterprise	Slate Ridge
Etters	Smith Gardens
	Smiths
Girard	Smyser
Gitts Run	Snyder's
Glenwood	South Side
Grahamville	Spring Forge
Grandview Terrace	Spring Garden
Grangeville	Springet
	Staley
Habliston	Stonybrook - Wilshire
Hall	Strawbridge
Hartley	Summit
Heistand	Sunset Manor
Hellam	Swam
Heller
High Rock	Tilden
Hilton	Tracktowne
Holley Heights	Turnpike
Hollywood	Twin Brooks
	Tyler Run - Queens Gate
Ironore
	Union
Jefferson Station
	Voltair
Lightner
Lincolnway	West Manchester
Longlevel	Wilben
Lower Chanceford	Windsor Park
	Wiota
Mayfield East
McFord	Xenia
Middletown Ferry
Monaghan	York New Salem
Mulberry
Mullertown	Ziegler

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Park Hills 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.