Do you know of Mount Forest ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Mount Forest. 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 Mount Forest.
Our sources for Mount Forest (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 Mount Forest other than they indicate that Mount Forest would be found somewhere in Cook County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1875 and closed in 1905.
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 Mount Forest ...
We found two communities that share the name Mount Forest.
Within Illinois, the name Mount Forest is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these two communities, one is located in the United States and the other in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Michigan
- Bay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Mount Forest [Bay County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Mount Forest.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mount Forest ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Mount Forest:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Mount Forest - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
More Orphans in Cook 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 Cook County.