Do you know of Cherry Valley ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Cherry Valley, so we are uncertain whether Cherry Valley is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Cherry Valley would be found somewhere in Douglas County, Colorado.

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 Cherry Valley ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Cherry Valley.

Within Colorado, the name Cherry Valley is unique.

Beyond Colorado, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, eighteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Cross County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Cherry Valley [Cross County].
- California
  - Riverside County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Cherry Valley [Riverside County].
- Illinois
  - Winnebago County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Cherry Valley [Winnebago County].
- Maryland
  - Baltimore County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Cherry Valley [Baltimore County].
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Cherry Valley [Montgomery County].
- Massachusetts
  - Worcester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Cherry Valley [Worcester County].
- Michigan
  - Schoolcraft 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 Michigan community of Cherry Valley [Schoolcraft County].
- Missouri
  - Crawford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Cherry Valley [Crawford County].
- New Jersey
  - Camden County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Cherry Valley [Camden County].
- New Mexico
  - Mora County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Cherry Valley [Mora County].
- New York
  - Otsego County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Cherry Valley [Otsego County].
- Ohio
  - Ashtabula County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Cherry Valley [Ashtabula County].
  - Harrison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Cherry Valley [Harrison County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Cherry Valley.
- Pennsylvania
  - Butler County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Cherry Valley [Butler County].
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Cherry Valley [Washington County].
- Prince Edward Island
  - Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Cherry Valley.
- Rhode Island
  - Providence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Cherry Valley [Providence County].
- Tennessee
  - Wilson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Cherry Valley [Wilson County].
- Washington
  - King 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 Washington community of Cherry Valley [King County].

More Orphans in Douglas 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 Douglas County.

Cherry
	Rock Ridge
Douglas
	Spring Valley
Flintwood Hills	Stevens' Gulch Spur

Glade	Toluca
	Tonah
Livengood Hills
	Virginia
Martin Spur
	Wolhurst
Plateau

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 Cherry Valley 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.