Do you know of Jackson Heights ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Jackson Heights. 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 Jackson Heights.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Jackson Heights, so we are uncertain whether Jackson Heights 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 Jackson Heights would be found somewhere in Madison 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 Jackson Heights ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Jackson Heights.
Within Illinois, the name Jackson Heights is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Colbert County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Jackson Heights [Colbert County].
- Mobile County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Jackson Heights [Mobile County].
- Arkansas
- Pulaski 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 Arkansas community of Jackson Heights [Pulaski County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Jackson Heights [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
- Bibb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Jackson Heights [Bibb County].
- Dougherty County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Jackson Heights [Dougherty County].
- Wilkes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Jackson Heights [Wilkes County].
- New York
- Queens County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Jackson Heights [Queens County].
- North Carolina
- Lenoir County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Jackson Heights [Lenoir County].
- Ohio
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Jackson Heights [Jackson County].
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Jackson Heights [Jefferson County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Jackson Heights.
- Tennessee
- Hamblen County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Jackson Heights [Hamblen County].
- Maury County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Jackson Heights [Maury County].
- Rutherford 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 Tennessee community of Jackson Heights [Rutherford County].
- Virginia
- Lynchburg City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Jackson Heights [Lynchburg City].
- West Virginia
- Lewis County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Jackson Heights [Lewis County].
- Alabama
More Orphans in Madison 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 Madison 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 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 Jackson Heights 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. |