Do you know of Rockland ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Rockland. 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 Rockland.
Our sources for Rockland (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 Rockland other than they indicate that Rockland would be found somewhere in Blount County, Alabama.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1901.
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 Rockland ...
We found 34 communities that share the name Rockland.
Within Alabama, the name Rockland is unique.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another 34 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 34 communities, 30 are located in the United States and five are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Colorado
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Rockland [Logan County].
- Connecticut
- New Haven County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Rockland [New Haven County].
- Delaware
- New Castle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Rockland [New Castle County].
- Florida
- Idaho
- Power County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Rockland [Power County].
- Kansas
- Chase County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Rockland [Chase County].
- Kentucky
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Rockland [Warren County].
- Maine
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Rockland [Knox County].
- Maryland
- Baltimore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Rockland [Baltimore County].
- Howard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Rockland [Howard County].
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Rockland [Montgomery County].
- Massachusetts
- Plymouth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Rockland [Plymouth County].
- Michigan
- Ontonagon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Rockland [Ontonagon County].
- Nevada
- New Brunswick
- New York
- Rockland 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 York community of Rockland [Rockland County].
- Sullivan County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Rockland [Sullivan County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Rockland.
- Ohio
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Rockland [Washington County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Rockland.
- Oregon
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Rockland [Douglas County].
- Pennsylvania
- Venango County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockland [Venango County].
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Rockland.
- Rhode Island
- Providence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Rockland [Providence County].
- South Carolina
- Charleston County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Rockland [Charleston County].
- Tennessee
- Sumner County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Rockland [Sumner County].
- Texas
- Tyler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Rockland [Tyler County].
- Virginia
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Rockland [Warren County].
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- La Crosse County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Rockland [La Crosse County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rockland ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Rockland:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Blount 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 Blount 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 Rockland 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/ |