Do you know of Hilliard ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hilliard. 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 Hilliard.<1>

We found mention of Hilliard as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Tazewell County, Illinois.

Communities Also Named Hilliard ...

We found nine communities that share the name Hilliard.

Within Illinois, the name Hilliard is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Walker County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Hilliard [Walker County].
- Alberta
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Hilliard.
- Florida
  - Nassau County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Hilliard [Nassau County].
- Missouri
  - Butler County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Hilliard [Butler County].
- New Jersey
  - Ocean County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Hilliard [Ocean County].
- Ohio
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Hilliard [Franklin County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Hilliard.
- Tennessee
  - Carroll County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Hilliard [Carroll County].
- Wyoming
  - Uinta County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Hilliard [Uinta County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hilliard ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hilliard:

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Hilliard - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

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)

More Orphans in Tazewell 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 Tazewell County.

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 Hilliard 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.