Do you know of Rockingham ???

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

Our sources for Rockingham (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 Rockingham other than they indicate that Rockingham would be found somewhere in Rockingham County, Virginia.

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 Rockingham ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Rockingham.

Within Virginia, the name Rockingham is unique.

Beyond Virginia, 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 two are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
  - Bacon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Rockingham [Bacon County].
- Iowa
  - Scott County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Rockingham [Scott County].
- Kansas
  - Pottawatomie 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 Rockingham [Pottawatomie County].
- Missouri
  - Ray County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Rockingham [Ray County].
- New Hampshire
  - Rockingham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Rockingham [Rockingham County].
- New Jersey
  - Middlesex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Rockingham [Middlesex County].
- North Carolina
  - Richmond County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Rockingham [Richmond County].
- Nova Scotia
  - 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 Nova Scotia community of Rockingham.
- Ohio
  - Tuscarawas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Rockingham [Tuscarawas County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Rockingham.
- Pennsylvania
  - Somerset 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 Rockingham [Somerset County].
- Vermont
  - Windham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Rockingham [Windham County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rockingham ...

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

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

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

Rand McNally Map of Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Rockingham.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 51/68352 (Place Name: Rockingham)

County: Rockingham (FIPS State/County: 51/165)

Class: X3

More Orphans in Rockingham 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 Rockingham 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 Rockingham 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.