Do you know of Rockville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Rockville. 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 Rockville.
We found mention of Rockville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Jefferson County, Alabama.
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.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1842 and closed in 1871.
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 Rockville ...
We found 49 communities that share the name Rockville.
There is one other community in Alabama which is also named Rockville.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another 48 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 48 communities, 46 are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Alabama ...
- Clarke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Rockville [Clarke County].
- Clarke County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Solano County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Rockville [Solano County].
- Connecticut
- Tolland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Rockville [Tolland County].
- Georgia
- Putnam County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Rockville [Putnam County].
- Idaho
- Owyhee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Rockville [Owyhee County].
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Parke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Rockville [Parke County].
- Iowa
- Delaware County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Rockville [Delaware County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Rockville [Lawrence County].
- Rowan 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 Kentucky community of Rockville [Rowan County].
- Maine
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Rockville [Knox County].
- Maryland
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Rockville [Montgomery County].
- Massachusetts
- Norfolk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Rockville [Norfolk County].
- Minnesota
- Stearns County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Rockville [Stearns County].
- Missouri
- Bates County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Rockville [Bates County].
- Nebraska
- Sherman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Rockville [Sherman County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Rockville.
- New York
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Rockville.
- Ohio
- Adams County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Rockville [Adams County].
- Meigs County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Rockville [Meigs County].
- Muskingum County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Rockville [Muskingum County].
- Stark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Rockville [Stark County].
- Ontario
- Oregon
- Malheur County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Rockville [Malheur County].
- Pennsylvania
- Armstrong County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockville [Armstrong County].
- Bedford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockville [Bedford County].
- Cambria County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockville [Cambria County].
- Centre County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockville [Centre County].
- Chester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockville [Chester County].
- Clarion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockville [Clarion County].
- Dauphin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockville [Dauphin County].
- Juniata County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockville [Juniata County].
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockville [Lawrence County].
- Mifflin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockville [Mifflin County].
- Northampton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockville [Northampton County].
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockville [York County].
- Rhode Island
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Rockville [Washington County].
- South Carolina
- Charleston County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Rockville [Charleston County].
- Tennessee
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Rockville [Monroe County].
- Utah
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Rockville [Washington County].
- Vermont
- Addison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Rockville [Addison County].
- Virginia
- Hanover County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Rockville [Hanover County].
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rockville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Rockville:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Jefferson 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 Jefferson 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 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 Rockville 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/ |