Do you know of Pilot Rock ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Pilot Rock. 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 Pilot Rock.<1>
Our sources for Pilot Rock (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 Pilot Rock other than they indicate that Pilot Rock would be found somewhere in Cherokee County, Iowa.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1865 and closed in 1886.
Communities Also Named Pilot Rock ...
We found two communities that share the name Pilot Rock.
There is one other community in Iowa which is also named Pilot Rock.
Beyond Iowa, there is another community also named Pilot Rock in the United States.
- Communities Located In Iowa ...
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Pilot Rock [Butler County].
- Butler County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Oregon
- Umatilla County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Pilot Rock [Umatilla County].
- Oregon
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pilot Rock ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Pilot Rock:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Article: Index to Abandoned Towns of Iowa
Taken from The Annals of Iowa (Volume 18, Issue 3 - Winter 1932)
Written by: Mott, David C.
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Cherokee 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 Cherokee County.
| Baum | |
| East Hampton | |
| Coulson | |
| Hazard | |
| Diamond Center | |
| Diamond | Maple |
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> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |