Do you know of Berkeley ???

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

Our sources for Berkeley (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Berkeley other than they indicate that Berkeley would be found somewhere in Berkeley County, South Carolina.

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 Berkeley ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Berkeley.

Within South Carolina, the name Berkeley is unique.

Beyond South Carolina, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Alameda County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Berkeley [Alameda County].
- Colorado
  - Arapahoe 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 Colorado community of Berkeley [Arapahoe County].
- Florida
  - Hernando County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Berkeley [Hernando County].
- Georgia
  - Madison 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 Georgia community of Berkeley [Madison County].
- Illinois
  - Cook County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Berkeley [Cook County].
- Indiana
  - Boone 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 Indiana community of Berkeley [Boone County].
- Missouri
  - Saint Louis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Berkeley [Saint Louis County].
- New Jersey
  - Ocean 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 New Jersey community of Berkeley [Ocean County].
- North Carolina
  - Nash County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Berkeley [Nash County].
  - 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 North Carolina community of Berkeley [Wayne County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Berkeley.
- Rhode Island
  - Providence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Berkeley [Providence County].
- Virginia
  - Albemarle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Berkeley [Albemarle County].
  - Charles City County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Berkeley [Charles City County].
- Washington
  - Pierce County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Berkeley [Pierce County].
- West Virginia
  - Berkeley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Berkeley [Berkeley County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Berkeley ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Berkeley:

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Berkeley - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in Berkeley 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 Berkeley County.

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 Berkeley 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.