Do you know of Whitehall ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Whitehall. 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 Whitehall.
Our sources for Whitehall (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Whitehall other than they indicate that Whitehall would be found somewhere in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1968.
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 Whitehall ...
We found 29 communities that share the name Whitehall.
There are three communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Whitehall.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 26 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 26 communities, 28 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Adams County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Whitehall [Adams County].
- Allegheny County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Whitehall [Allegheny County].
- Montour County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Whitehall [Montour County].
- Adams County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Georgia
- Clarke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Whitehall [Clarke County].
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Owen County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Whitehall [Owen County].
- Kansas
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Whitehall [Cherokee County].
- Louisiana
- Maryland
- Dorchester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Whitehall [Dorchester County].
- Michigan
- Muskegon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Whitehall [Muskegon County].
- Montana
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Whitehall [Jefferson County].
- New Jersey
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Whitehall [Sussex County].
- New York
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Whitehall [Washington County].
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Whitehall [Franklin County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Whitehall.
- Rhode Island
- Newport County
- Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Whitehall [Newport County].
- South Carolina
- Florence County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Whitehall [Florence County].
- Greenwood County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Whitehall [Greenwood County].
- Lexington County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Whitehall [Lexington County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- King and Queen County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Whitehall [King and Queen County].
- West Virginia
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Whitehall [Marion County].
- Wisconsin
- Trempealeau County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Whitehall [Trempealeau County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Whitehall ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Whitehall:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Whitehall - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned
The FIPS database contains an entry for Whitehall.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 42/84520 (Place Name: Whitehall (census name Fullerton))
County: Lehigh (FIPS State/County: 42/077)
Class: X2
More Orphans in Lehigh 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 Lehigh County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Whitehall 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |