Do you know of Brookhaven ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Brookhaven, so we are uncertain whether Brookhaven 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 Brookhaven would be found somewhere in Whiteside County, Illinois.

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 Brookhaven ...

We found 26 communities that share the name Brookhaven.

Within Illinois, the name Brookhaven is unique.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another 26 communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Tuscaloosa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Brookhaven [Tuscaloosa County].
- Delaware
  - New Castle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Brookhaven [New Castle County].
- Georgia
  - Bibb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Brookhaven [Bibb County].
  - DeKalb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Brookhaven [DeKalb County].
  - Fulton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Brookhaven [Fulton County].
  - Muscogee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Brookhaven [Muscogee County].
- Indiana
  - Grant County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Brookhaven [Grant County].
- Kansas
  - Sedgwick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Brookhaven [Sedgwick County].
- Kentucky
  - Fayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Brookhaven [Fayette County].
- Maryland
  - Montgomery 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 Maryland community of Brookhaven [Montgomery County].
- Mississippi
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Brookhaven [Lincoln County].
- New York
  - Chemung County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Brookhaven [Chemung County].
  - Suffolk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Brookhaven [Suffolk County].
- North Carolina
  - Lee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Brookhaven [Lee County].
  - Union County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Brookhaven [Union County].
  - Wake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Brookhaven [Wake County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Delaware County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Brookhaven [Delaware County].
- South Carolina
  - Greenville County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Brookhaven [Greenville County].
  - Spartanburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Brookhaven [Spartanburg County].
- Tennessee
  - Cumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Brookhaven [Cumberland County].
- Texas
  - Bell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Brookhaven [Bell County].
  - Harris County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Brookhaven [Harris County].
- Utah
  - Salt Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Brookhaven [Salt Lake County].
- Virginia
  - Fairfax County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Brookhaven [Fairfax County].
  - Richmond City
  - 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 Virginia community of Brookhaven [Richmond City].
- West Virginia
  - Monongalia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Brookhaven [Monongalia County].

More Orphans in Whiteside 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 Whiteside County.

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Brookhaven 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.