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Do you know of Gerald ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Gerald, so we are uncertain whether Gerald 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 Gerald would be found somewhere in Vermilion 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 Gerald ...

We found ten communities that share the name Gerald.

There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Gerald.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nine communities, nine are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Illinois ...
    • Champaign County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Gerald [Champaign County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Dale County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Gerald [Dale County].
    • Indiana
      • Perry County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Gerald [Perry County].
    • Mississippi
      • Coahoma County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Gerald [Coahoma County].
    • Missouri
      • Franklin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Gerald [Franklin County].
    • Nevada
      • Eureka County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Gerald [Eureka County].
    • Ohio
      • Henry County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Gerald [Henry County].
    • Saskatchewan
      • Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Gerald.
    • Texas
      • Denton 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 Texas community of Gerald [Denton County].
      • McLennan County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Gerald [McLennan County].

More Orphans in  Vermilion County ...

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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 Vermilion County.

Beckwith 
BixbyJordan
Blount 
BrewerKelleyville
Brothers Station 
BunsenvilleLockette
 Long
Central ParkLyons
Circle 
 Myron
Danville Junction 
De LongOaklawn
Diamond Mines 
 Pellsville
FishersPilot
France 
 Riola
Grays Siding 
GundySandusky
 Sidell Junction
Hillary 
Hillery - BatestownVipco
Hinton 
Home GardensWestville Crossing
 Woodland Lake
Iliana 

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Gerald 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.









 

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