Do you know of Cobb ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cobb. 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 Cobb.
Our sources for Cobb (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 Cobb other than they indicate that Cobb would be found somewhere in Randolph County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1857 and closed in 1873.
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 Cobb ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Cobb.
Within Illinois, the name Cobb is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, seventeen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- California
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Cobb [Lake County].
- Georgia
- Sumter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Cobb [Sumter County].
- Idaho
- Indiana
- Vigo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Cobb [Vigo County].
- Kentucky
- Caldwell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Cobb [Caldwell County].
- Louisiana
- Ouachita Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Cobb [Ouachita Parish].
- Missouri
- Montana
- Ravalli County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Cobb [Ravalli County].
- Nebraska
- New York
- Suffolk County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Cobb [Suffolk County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Cobb.
- Oklahoma
- Bryan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Cobb [Bryan County].
- Oregon
- Umatilla County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Cobb [Umatilla County].
- Texas
- Kaufman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Cobb [Kaufman County].
- West Virginia
- Greenbrier County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Cobb [Greenbrier County].
- Wisconsin
- Iowa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Cobb [Iowa County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cobb ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Cobb:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)
More Orphans in Randolph 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 Randolph County.
| Brewerville | Pujol |
| Clores | Robinsons |
| Rosborough | |
| Ellisgrove | |
| Sadowa | |
| Flinton | Sand Spur |
| Florida | Schulines |
| Ford | |
| Union | |
| Lafayette | |
| Wheaton | |
| Poland |
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 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 Cobb 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/ |