Do you know of Forest Glen ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Forest Glen. 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 Forest Glen.
Our sources for Forest Glen (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 Forest Glen other than they indicate that Forest Glen would be found somewhere in Cook County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1884 and closed in 1894.
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 Forest Glen ...
We found fourteen communities that share the name Forest Glen.
Within Illinois, the name Forest Glen is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Trinity County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Forest Glen [Trinity County].
- Connecticut
- Middlesex 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 Connecticut community of Forest Glen [Middlesex County].
- Georgia
- Cobb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Forest Glen [Cobb County].
- Wilcox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Forest Glen [Wilcox County].
- Indiana
- Kosciusko County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Forest Glen [Kosciusko County].
- Louisiana
- Saint Tammany Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Forest Glen [Saint Tammany Parish].
- Maryland
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Forest Glen [Montgomery County].
- New York
- Erie County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Forest Glen [Erie County].
- Ulster County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Forest Glen [Ulster County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Forest Glen.
- Pennsylvania
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Forest Glen [Monroe County].
- Tennessee
- Blount County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Forest Glen [Blount County].
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Forest Glen [Salt Lake County].
- Virginia
- James City County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Forest Glen [James City County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Forest Glen ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Forest Glen:
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 Forest Glen - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
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)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Forest Glen.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 17/26818 (Place Name: Forest Glen)
County: Cook (FIPS State/County: 17/031)
Class: U4
Identifies a populated place (ie- Forest Glen) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.
More Orphans in Cook 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 Cook 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 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 Forest Glen 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/ |