Do you know of Portlock ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Portlock. 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 Portlock.<1>
We found mention of Portlock as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in somewhere in Alaska.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1921 and closed in 1950.
Communities Also Named Portlock ...
We found three communities that share the name Portlock.
Within Alaska, the name Portlock is unique.
Beyond Alaska, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these three communities, .
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Portlock ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Portlock:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
The FIPS database contains an entry for Portlock.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 02/63660 (Place Name: Portlock)
County: Kenai Peninsula (FIPS State/County: 02/122)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Portlock) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |