Do you know of Hawthorne ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hawthorne. 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 Hawthorne.
Our sources for Hawthorne (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 Hawthorne other than they indicate that Hawthorne would be found somewhere in Cook County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1900 and closed in 1910.
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 Hawthorne ...
We found 30 communities that share the name Hawthorne.
Within Illinois, the name Hawthorne is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another 30 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 30 communities, 28 are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Los Angeles County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Hawthorne [Los Angeles County].
- Connecticut
- Fairfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Hawthorne [Fairfield County].
- Florida
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Hawthorne [Montgomery County].
- Kansas
- Atchison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Hawthorne [Atchison County].
- Kentucky
- Campbell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Hawthorne [Campbell County].
- Louisiana
- Vernon Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Hawthorne [Vernon Parish].
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Saint Clair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Hawthorne [Saint Clair County].
- Mississippi
- Nebraska
- Lancaster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Hawthorne [Lancaster County].
- Nevada
- Mineral County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Hawthorne [Mineral County].
- New Jersey
- New York
- Westchester County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Hawthorne [Westchester County].
- North Carolina
- Buncombe County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Hawthorne [Buncombe County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Hawthorne.
- Ontario
- Oregon
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Hawthorne [Douglas County].
- Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Hawthorne [Philadelphia County].
- South Carolina
- Aiken County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Hawthorne [Aiken County].
- Tennessee
- Bedford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Hawthorne [Bedford County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Norton City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Hawthorne [Norton City].
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Hawthorne [Douglas County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hawthorne ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hawthorne:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Hawthorne.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 17/33578 (Place Name: Hawthorne)
County: Cook (FIPS State/County: 17/031)
Class: U4
Identifies a populated place (ie- Hawthorne) 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 Hawthorne 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/ |