Do you know of Huntley Grove ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Huntley Grove. 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 Huntley Grove.<1>
Our sources for Huntley Grove (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 Huntley Grove other than they indicate that Huntley Grove would be found somewhere in McHenry County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1851 and closed in 1886.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Huntley Grove ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Huntley Grove:
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 McHenry 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 McHenry County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |