Do you know of Brookdale ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Brookdale. 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 Brookdale.<1>
Our sources for Brookdale (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 Brookdale other than they indicate that Brookdale would be found somewhere in McHenry County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1848 and closed in 1856.
Communities Also Named Brookdale ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Brookdale.
There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Brookdale.
Beyond Illinois, 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 three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Cook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Brookdale [Cook County].
- Cook County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Santa Cruz County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Brookdale [Santa Cruz County].
- Iowa
- Plymouth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Brookdale [Plymouth County].
- Kansas
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Brookdale.
- Maryland
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Brookdale [Montgomery County].
- Missouri
- New Jersey
- Camden County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Brookdale [Camden County].
- Essex County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Brookdale [Essex County].
- New York
- North Carolina
- Henderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Brookdale [Henderson County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Brookdale.
- Ohio
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Brookdale [Lawrence County].
- Pennsylvania
- Cambria County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Brookdale [Cambria County].
- Susquehanna County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Brookdale [Susquehanna County].
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Brookdale.
- South Carolina
- Washington
- Pierce County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Brookdale [Pierce County].
- Wisconsin
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Brookdale ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Brookdale:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Great Lakes West
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2005
(Available from Amazon.com)
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)
More Orphans in McHenry 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 McHenry County.
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> | 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 Brookdale 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. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |