Do you know of Round Hill ???

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

Our sources for Round Hill (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 Round Hill other than they indicate that Round Hill would be found somewhere in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1830 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 Round Hill ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Round Hill.

Within Connecticut, the name Round Hill is unique.

Beyond Connecticut, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, nine are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Round Hill.
- Arkansas
  - Dallas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Round Hill [Dallas County].
- Colorado
  - Saguache 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 Colorado community of Round Hill [Saguache County].
- Kentucky
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Round Hill [Madison County].
- Maryland
  - Frederick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Round Hill [Frederick County].
- Nevada
  - Douglas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Round Hill [Douglas County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Round Hill.
- Pennsylvania
  - Adams 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 Round Hill [Adams County].
- Virginia
  - Frederick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Round Hill [Frederick County].
  - Loudoun County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Round Hill [Loudoun County].
  - Rappahannock County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Round Hill [Rappahannock County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Round Hill ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Round Hill.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 09/65650 (Place Name: Round Hill)

County: Fairfield (FIPS State/County: 09/001)

Class: U6

Identifies a populated place (ie- Round Hill) that is wholly or substantially located outside the boundaries of any incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) that has an authoritative common name recognized by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Fairfield 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 Fairfield 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Round Hill 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/